This is an analysis of the poem In Unknown Directions that begins with:
Live life unafraid to make mistakes.
Mistakes made create to establish, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcabdeaXbabafgfgecd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101 011010010 10110100100 1011101 01001101101 001010 101000011010 101101101 110001111001 1010010010001 10101010 01001 1101010 01000111100 0010101 101001010 1111001 110101001 100010100101 111011 11010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 769
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mistakes connects the lines.
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- summary of In Unknown Directions;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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