This is an analysis of the poem Failure that begins with:
THE BOY went out from the ranges grim,
And the breath of the mountains went with him;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBBCcdDeeffgghd ggiiddaa aafXffdd jjhhaaff kkffllhd ffhhggff aaBBCcdD kkmmiihhhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011100101 1010010101 001001101101 10100110111 1001110111 1011110011 11101001010 01101001010 011100101 1011100101 10101101101 1100110101 1111111111 1110110111 11101101010 01001001010 1100100111 111111111 011100101 110101101 1110010111010 11001011010 1010100101 10101111101 1010110101 1011110101 0011110101 1010110110 110010111001 1111101101 11001111110 11001011010 11100110101 00101101001 00100110101 1011110111 1010100111 1010110111 1110101011 1110000101 1110111101 000110001 0011110101 0100100101 111111111 1110111111 10101011101 11001011010 10101101101 1111101111 10110101101 1010100101 1011100101 0010110101 1110110111 111111101 11100100101 0010010101 001001101101 10100110111 1001110111 1011110011 11101001010 01101001010 111010111 0110100101 0100111111 11100110101 1110110101 10101111001 1011011111 1110111111 1110110101 001101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 415
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; his, and, he, of, her, you, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word desire at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Failure;
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