This is an analysis of the poem If You Are Up To The Challenge that begins with:
No.
Do not do that to yourself....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcddeebf gcXXgefhah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1111010 1110101011 1101010001 1010010101 0111101 01101111 10101 10111011 100001001110100 110 1010 011 01110010 11010 111 1001 10111010 11010111 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word do is repeated.
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- summary of If You Are Up To The Challenge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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