This is an analysis of the poem I Could Do It Better that begins with:
I don't understand as good as I should.
And I know I could do it better....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab ab aBXBcBcB DBXBEbFbXDBEBFB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,8,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110111 111111010 111111111 11111110 100100101 1110110 0101010101001 1110110 0101010111101 1110110 010001100101 1110110 1101111001 1110110 01010101111 1110110 101 01110 0101 011110 1101111001 1110110 101 0111010 0101 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, done are repeated.
The author used the same words i, live at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word better at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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