This is an analysis of the poem Easier Than I Had Imagined that begins with:
Making to create one's own opportunities,
Is a much greater task to face......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXbde XXff beX ecgcchbXabb X bhcd X cgaXcgcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,3,11,1,4,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100011110100 00110101 1110001101 0110010101 10101 0101101011001 11100111 1111010 111001110 11001 111100001 111001101001 11 1101100100 111010011 1 1110011001 11 101011010 1001110 111010100 11 010101100 1101110101 11 1011010101001 10011 1 100101001010100 11011 111101100111010 101110111 111 0101010001 010011110 1110010110001 11101 1 01100 1100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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