This is an analysis of the poem Look Ahead that begins with:
Look ahead and not behind.
Take a look ahead and wish to find, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCD EDEF ddAF EGDHEF ddAF AABCD AABCDXEGDHEFD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,6,4,5,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011101 101011101 11 01 00101001101 0101010010 010101001 0101010010 1010101001 11010101100 1101101011 11101010010 1010101001 0101010010 01 010101001 01 0101010010 1010101001 111010101100 1110111001 11101010010 1010101001 1011101 101011101 11 01 00101001101 1011101 101011101 11 01 00101001101 0101010010 01 010101001 01 0101010010 1010101001 00101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; forget, about, people, many, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word forget is repeated.
The author used the same word look at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word get at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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