This is an analysis of the poem The Mistake that begins with:
There is always the harrowing by mortality,
the strafing by age, he thinks. Always defeats....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabcdXeXXbcceXfeXdafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010010100 01011111101 1011101011101 0010011010001 001100110 010011010 01010011101 01101011010 1010010010110 01001101101 0001001001110 010100100010 1000101000001 0010010011 10100100101 00101100101 1010101111 1111011101 1100101110 010100110 10101010001 01110011101 1001011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1001
- Average number of words per stanza: 176
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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.
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- summary of The Mistake;
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