This is an analysis of the poem If A Prevention With Good Health Began that begins with:

To those who oppose,
A national health care be imposed......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccc bdbdeabdf ghgah ffiia iei XXfgb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,5,5,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101 010011001 00101010101 110101 010101 101011110 00100100 11010 10111100 10100100 1001010 011 110110 11011110 11001 10001111 10101001111001 010010 10101001 0001000101 11010 11010100101 1101 0111010010 110011110111 1101000110100010 00101010111111 11 01101001000110010 101001 1011110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines now is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of If A Prevention With Good Health Began;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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