This is an analysis of the poem He Earned His Way that begins with:

rose unto the bights of fame
And with the great men stood, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBabbcXbc babadXddb efefgbggbXaBabdcddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100101 100111 11010101 110110 01111101 110111 010111000 01010101 1101 11110101 110101 11110101 111101 11110101 1110100 11011111 11010101 11001001 11110001 110001 11000101 1101001 01110101 110101 11110101 10010101 0110011 11100101 100111 11010101 110110 01011101 011101 11010001 11010011 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, he, with are repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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