This is an analysis of the poem If You Must Limp Alone Across The Finish Line that begins with:
If you must limp alone across the finish line,
Do it and be proud....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaad defXXX bXcffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101010101 10101 1111000101 1110 11101110 101110110 11010111 1101110 1010100011 10100101 10011101 10100 110001010 11010 011 11 1101 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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