This is an analysis of the poem It 'Only' Took Fifty Years that begins with:
A wishing for success to achieve,
Takes more than just a wish to get it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaXdbace X fdb defX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,1,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101001 111101010 0100001010 001001110001 01101000101 101011010010 100101 0101001001 011001 01011101010 1111010 11 1010101100 1101010 100 10 1 111110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 is repeated.
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- summary of It 'Only' Took Fifty Years;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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