This is an analysis of the poem Achieving Notoriety that begins with:

Achieving notoriety can be claimed,
To bring on changes....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdefd cegaXfaba bhXdiX dhijhjXb X cb X hbhaag X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,6,8,1,2,1,6,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01010100101 01110 1010011111 11001 01001111101 11111 10110100 01000001111 010101001001 11101110 1011110 11110010101 10011100011 1101100 0110101100101 001010111101 011111111010 101001110101 11011 10111111110001 1101011101111 11100110001 1110100110100 110010111 1101 1110010 1111101010 1011101 10111110101 01010100101 110010011110111 11100101101 11 1110001101011 1110111101001 1011 0100011001 0111100111 1 0010100110001 0101111001010 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, to, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word achieving at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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