This is an analysis of the poem Holding Onto A Discipline that begins with:
I regard the making of an effort,
With actual attempts to do my best......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab XcaXXccbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100110 0100010111 1110010 0100100100011 10100100 10100000110101 11010011 0101001001101 100010001011 010101001011 1010011000 110110010100100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Holding Onto A Discipline;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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