This is an analysis of the poem Everybody Wants That Top that begins with:

Doing it and not to be lipped,
Will move off a path those rocks....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABcAABAcDE EFeXXGH EFfXGH ABcAABAcDE EFXGHg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,6,10,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011001 0110111 1 1001001 1100001 0010110011 10111 1 10010110 0101100111 1010111 01101000101 11010111 0101111001 11010101 010110101 100010111 1010111 01101000101 101100101 11010101 010110101 100010111 10011001 0110111 1 1001001 1100001 0010110011 10111 1 10010110 0101100111 1010111 01101000101 11010101 010110101 100010111 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word everybody at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word pain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Everybody Wants That Top;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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