This is an analysis of the poem Know Your Worth that begins with:

Don't sit and cry until your eyes dry.
Decide to go outside to satisfy, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXBXBbCbXaaBCbCB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101111 0101110101 0101001011 0101111100 110101 1111 110100101 1 00101001111 1101111101 111 101011101 1111 01111 00101001111 111 111010100 111 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, it, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    The author used the same word don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Know Your Worth;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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