This is an analysis of the poem It Just Gets Better that begins with:
It just gets better.
If the worst of it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbbXcd AbeafbfXebegX Ahihcgg Agbgiai AgbbdhXbi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,13,7,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110 00100 0101 00101 111111 011110 10011111 01110 001000101 100110101 01010110 11100100 001 11010100 1011101 0111 010 11011 00101 010100 01110 011010111 11101010101 101010001 1111 111001 00101101 01110 0110111111 001000101 0010101 11010 010110 0111001 01110 111011 0110011 11011101 001111 1110110111 11 101 001110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 43
- 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:
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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of It Just Gets Better;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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