This is an analysis of the poem Believing Our Success Only We Alone Feed that begins with:
I'll remain and keep myself different.
You'll campaign to keep yourself distant....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCD AABCdX aEcaEcc AABCD ADADADCXAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,7,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111100 101011010 111010010 110111001 111110101 1011111100 101011010 111010010 110111001 1110110101 10101001 11111 10111 101010111 111111 10111 1010100111 1010110101 1011111100 101011010 111010010 110111001 111110101 1010100110 0101110101 1010100110 0101110101 1010100110 0101110101 1010101101011 1010100110 1010101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; what, and, believing, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word keeping is repeated.
The author used the same words i'll, we'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word feed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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