This is an analysis of the poem Better Days Are Made For The Ones Who Pay The Price that begins with:
Falling down to get up,
And determined to get out of a rut......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC BDC EfEc GCGCEfE ABC GXX HABC BDC EfE HABC BDC EfEXHEHEHEHE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,7,3,3,4,3,3,4,3,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 1010011001 0101010 10101 11011101 001110 101111011101 0 10110011001 0101010 1110110111 101101010 1110110111 101101010 101111011101 0 10110011001 101011 1010011001 0101010 1110110111 1 1010111001001 1111 101011 1010011001 0101010 10101 11011101 001110 101111011101 0 10110011001 1111 101011 1010011001 0101010 10101 11011101 001110 101111011101 0 10110011001 1111 101111011101 111 101111011101 1111 101111011101 111 101111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; well is repeated.
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- summary of Better Days Are Made For The Ones Who Pay The Price;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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