This is an analysis of the poem The Shame Of Going Back that begins with:
When you've come to make a fortune and you haven't made your salt,
And the reason of your failure isn't anybody's fault -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdd eebb ffbb eebb ggbbcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101110111 101001100010001 111010101011101 101011111010101 10101010 10111 10111010010001 101111101110101 111010101011111 111110101010101 101011111010101 111010101110001 101011101110011 101110101110101 111000110010101 101010100010001 111011111111101 101010101110101 101011100010101 111110101110101 111111101110101 111010111010101 101010100010101 10101010 10111 11101010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, going are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word back at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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