This is an analysis of the poem An Extra-Curricular Activity that begins with:
Anyone who has grown accustomed to opposition,
Is more than likely not the one to empathize with those......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101001010 01110101010101 1111110101010 00111010001010001 0011110100 101011010 101111011001000100 01100010000100010 1101011010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 465
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; to is repeated.
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- summary of An Extra-Curricular Activity;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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