This is an analysis of the poem And...The Winner Is that begins with:
Many times those with good intentions,
Are better off just to leave them 'intended'....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbcdc eebddaccXdaedbbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100010 11011010100 11 100100010 1101 1101001011 010101010101010 10010100 1110101011 10110100110100 0110110101 011010010 11000100101010 1101001100010 001101001010101 11001010101101010 1 0100 01101101 001000101100010 0101101000100001 011110001010001 010011 010001010010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of And...The Winner Is;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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