This is an analysis of the poem Effort that begins with:
He brought me his report card from the teacher and he said
He wasn't very proud of it and sadly bowed his head....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXaccaaddaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11100110010111 11010100110101 111000101101011 1110101001000001 111010101110111 111000101110101 1010111001010111 11110101110101 01011100111101 101011101011101 101110101010101 001010101011111 111000101010101 10010101111101 111111101010101 111110101110001 111100101010111 110111000101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1082
- Average number of words per stanza: 206
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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- summary of Effort;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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