This is an analysis of the poem Doing Their Best To Achieve that begins with:
What advice would you give,
To anyone seeking with a wish......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb cdeeX XfXb dbgec cXXefg Xffa eXX b XfffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,4,5,6,4,3,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 010010001 001010 1010010 11011 101 1110100001001 0100 11 1111011 1110101 0011101010 1101 000101001010 110 1010 00110100110 0111011001 111011100 011011010 011000101 1001010101001 100011100 1100011001001 111101011 11011100110 1011001 1010111000101101 0010010101 1101110010100 110111010 1000 111000100001110 0100110110100 01010011110110 110111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines advice is repeated).
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- summary of Doing Their Best To Achieve;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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