This is an analysis of the poem Do Your Best Even Better that begins with:
Never stop to think your best is enough.
Always do your very best to then step up....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaCDADA ccccdXBdCDADA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111001 11111010111 1010111001 11101111010 0010001 00101 0010001 00101 10101111010 10111111010 0110111010 00100010 11101010 11111010111 110110100010 11101111010 0010001 00101 0010001 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; best, to, your, better are repeated.
The author used the same word never at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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