This is an analysis of the poem Failure that begins with:
What is it about failure,
That some seem to have come......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbabbcbdbd XXbXX Xc XeecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000110 111011 00101111001 10010100010010 000111010 1000111 10101001110 10100100 0010101111001 1110101001000001 110100100111 110101110 11101000 110100101 110110010110 11 1 110100 1 11001 1000110001 11111100 1110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to are repeated.
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- summary of Failure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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