This is an analysis of the poem To The Failures that begins with:
YOURS is the loser's part to play,
For you the goal is far away...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaabcc ddbeebcc ccfaafgX bbaggXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 11010101 110001 00110111 01010111 111101 01010011 01010101 001101110 010100010 110101 100101001 11111101 010001 11111101 110100101 01011101 11000111 111101 11011101 01000101 100101 11110101 11110101 11110101 11110101 011101 11110101 01110101 011100 11010011 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word prize at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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