This is an analysis of the poem Before Hoops Are Jumped Through that begins with:
I am fleet of foot...
The moment I suspect, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaXaaa AXbcXcX cbbXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101 010101 01000101101 010010100101 111101 001000111101 001001101000100 11101 11001011101 0010100110001 010110100011010 110111110100 010110010011 01011111010010 101010000110110100 11101110101111 001000100101011 0010101110100 00101101001011 1111001000010 0111111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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, of, and, with are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Before Hoops Are Jumped Through;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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