This is an analysis of the poem Competing With Myself that begins with:
I no longer sit to be amazed,
By those who believe an ease of life......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC Xaa aXX ABC XXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010001 111011101 0101011110 11101010100 10011110010 10101001010000010 11100110101 0100100010100 10101010001 111010001 111011101 0101011110 111110111010 10111110 111100010100010 1100100111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Competing With Myself;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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