This is an analysis of the poem Born To Do that begins with:
All my life I've been told,
What I could and could not do....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACDX eaXabe ABACDX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1111111 1011000010010 101110001 010101011 00100100 1110111010 11110101 01011101111010 10111010010001001 11 11010 111101 1111111 1011000010010 101110001 010101011 00100100 1111001 0101010100 1010001 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of Born To Do;
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