This is an analysis of the poem Jeering From A Crowd that begins with:
Success is not achieved with politeness.
Or niceties to appease those who approve....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb Xbcc aXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010010 11000011101 11110110100 11100100110 0101010010 010010010 1010001010 001100100111 011110101110 01100010100010 10010001000011010 11110000100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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