This is an analysis of the poem But You that begins with:
Take what it is you can do,
And succeed with it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab ACadaXA eXffa ACXcAaade
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111 10100 1110111 110100 1111101 11011101 11111 0101101 00110011 001100 11 001101110 00010 10001 1010010111 0010101111 1111101 11011101 001100 101101 11 10001 1101001 011001111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, to are repeated.
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- summary of But You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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