This is an analysis of the poem Get Right With Yourself that begins with:

Get right with yourself!
To see your blemishes and accept your flaws....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAcADEC BffXfb ADECXBeCCBeCCABAec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 01110010111 11010 1111110101 11011010 111111011 1101101001 1011011111 1001010101010 1 1111101 10011101 11111 01011 11011010 111111011 1101101001 1011011111 1001010101010 1 1010101 11 1001010101010 1 1010101 11 11010 01110010111 11010 01 10101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • 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; your, with, you, to are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Get Right With Yourself;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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