This is an analysis of the poem How To Do What Has Been Done Even Better that begins with:

The achieving,
With a delivery done......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDEBAF fgadgdbb dhXfffgXhgbc ABCDEBAFii XfXfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,10,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010 0001001 0010 01101001 10010010 010 1011010 101 111010 001101111 0111010010 11100101101 1001010011 111011 110111010 011010 1 111011101 11101 0101110101 1001 0010101 10101101 1110010011101 110010101 1011010 11011101 1010 0010 0001001 0010 01101001 10010010 010 1011010 101 001000101 10001011 101011 110 1011101 001000 101111 00100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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 author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of How To Do What Has Been Done Even Better;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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