This is an analysis of the poem Bringing Themselves Down that begins with:
Who aspires to remain at the bottom?
Who is motivated with that to wish? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDE DFFF DFFF ABCDE DDFGFf HDHI FGHDHI DDHDHIXHDHI
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,5,6,4,6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100011010 1010100101 1001001010100 111101 11100010100 10101011010 1010101101 101010101110 0110101101 10101011010 1010101101 101010101110 0110101101 10100011010 1010100101 1001001010100 111101 11100010100 10101011010 10010 1010101101 1001 101010101110 0010011001 1010101111010 1000101 1010101111010 100111111 1010101101 1001 1010101111010 1000101 1010101111010 100111111 10101011010 10010 1010101111010 1000101 1010101111010 100111111 1010101111010 1000101 1010101111010 100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, to, people, can't, get, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, people are repeated.
The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words misdeeds, up at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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