This is an analysis of the poem High Standards that begins with:
Some do some don't.
While others may come, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcaXcbXdXaaXb dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 11011 0010100110 01010010001 11 1000101 11011 0110 11111101 0101100101 1110001 10100100110 011001 0101101 11110001001 1101011 1100100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of High Standards;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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