This is an analysis of the poem Impressing To Be The Best that begins with:
Impressing to be the best today,
Just is not good enough for one to portray....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc defb fdXfX bcXcc XeX ggXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010000101 10100111001 110101000101010 0101001 0111100100010100 10101110111010 0001101101001111 011010010010 11011110101010 0111011100100010 1101000101 10101011 0010001001001010 110010110100100 101000100110101 111000101010010 0001001101110001 1001110100101010101 11111101 1011011010101 101110100011 1 111 1110110111001010 1111011011 101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, with, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase no connects the lines.
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