This is an analysis of the poem A Hero But Not To Claim that begins with:
You may love the heat of things.
And perhaps you are attracted, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXb cXXXXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 10111010 01111001 010001 100001100010 110110111 010001101001 011001 010011101 101101 110101101 101011 0100111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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 word a is repeated.
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