This is an analysis of the poem He Found Himself By Losing that begins with:
He found himself by losing!
Race after race, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacad XdeffXb ghiged dAXXih ffff Xf cbXigceXAed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,6,4,2,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 1101 1110010 010001000101 11111010010 1011 111001 010011 101110 111001001 101110 010100110 011010101 1101 110010100 01101 110101001 010111 010001010 11 11101110 100010 11111111101 101010101 00100 0111 110010 1010010 01110111 110101111 1110010010 11101 1101 1101111011 111 10101110101 1101 1010100110001 11101110 11011011101 0010001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of He Found Himself By Losing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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