This is an analysis of the poem Just To Say You Can Be Beaten that begins with:

To feel each minute,
You are not in it....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbcbcXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101 11100 111111111 111100100 01101 10101010100 111110101 110011001010 110110100011 1011110101 11101 10111010 01001100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.

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  • summary of Just To Say You Can Be Beaten;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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