This is an analysis of the poem One Art that begins with:
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aba abA aba XbA XbaXabaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010001010 1101110001 00111101010 110100101010 0111010101 01010001010 11010101010 1011110111 01010101010 11110111111 101011101 01010001010 11110101110 11111100100 11010100010 101010101010 1111110100 01010111010 10111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; losing, to, of, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word disaster at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of One Art;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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