This is an analysis of the poem An Impossible Task that begins with:
The only ones to become disappointed,
Over how others have lived their lives......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddeabbffXa aX agXhe ihgdbiX dcgeXXiba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,2,5,7,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011010 101101111 11111001 0100110101 01110001 1101001101 01010101010 1011101011 1001110010111010 0111000101001 010111111 11011100101 1111101101010 11101011010 110101111000 1 10010101 0010011010 101001 1101001100100 10100 11110001 11 10110111111 111101 11011011100 0101010110101 1 1111 01110011011 11111110010 0100110100 10101001 1111101100 101010 11101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines existed is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase facts connects the lines.
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- summary of An Impossible Task;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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