This is an analysis of the poem Example that begins with:
Perhaps the victory shall not come to me,
Perhaps I shall not reach the goal I seek,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabX bcdcdaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01010011101 0111110111 0101011101 1101010111 1111101100 11010001001 1011011100 1111111111 1001010101 1111011111 1011110111 1101111101 1111111101 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word perhaps is repeated.
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