This is an analysis of the poem Few Are Champions that begins with:
I make mistakes and need to be challenged.
But few are champions I seek to feed my thoughts, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc CXabaXXCb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110010 111100110111 100011000111010 11100 111111 1101011010101 10101 11011010 10100101 11100 011011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word few at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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