This is an analysis of the poem The Real Successes that begins with:
You think that the failures are many,
You think the successes are few,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababcdcd efefgbgb ebebabab hfhfibibXAgaghfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110 11001011 1111010010 11100111 111110010 11001011 1010110110 11011001 010110010 01011001 11101000010 11011001 110110010 11011101 1110110010 11001001 1110010110 010101001 1111010110 11111001 011110110 11001011 100010010 11111111 010111010 01001101 1011110010 11001001 0011110011 11111001 110010011 01101011 111010110 11111001 111010010 00101001 010110010 11101101 1010110010 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, not, in, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, the, their, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of The Real Successes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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