This is an analysis of the poem Less Tolerant Of Your Success that begins with:

Tolerant?
I am accused of not being tolerant? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXca XdeXacd fXadebd aacdd adfaXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,5,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 11010110100 01100101 1010100 00 000 111010101 0010101 10101 1011 001010110101 10111101 1100101 1 110 11101 011110101 0111101010011 110101101 00111101111 101100101101 110101001 001001 00101 1101010 11101 1111011000101 111011001 1110110101001 0101001001010 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; your, of, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tolerant is repeated).

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  • summary of Less Tolerant Of Your Success;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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