This is an analysis of the poem How Does One Become Better that begins with:
How does one become better,
Doing what one does? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab cX Xd ccX efc befbcg aXac Xhhhh gXbXbX dXXgbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,3,3,6,4,5,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 10111 101101100 01110 10010001 1011101 1001000101 1001 11001 0010011 1010011010 101110100 01001 1010001101 11111111 1100010111 11 10010 10101101 001001110 1010100 10011 101010111 010 11 1 1 0111 1001011 110 1111 110110101 001011 111010011 1111101000101 1010 1 11 01
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; of, pray, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pray, you are repeated.
The author used the same word be at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mistakes, pray are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases it, pray connect the lines.
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