This is an analysis of the poem Make Impossibilities Your Possibility that begins with:

With a giving it some time and patience,
What is wished to get......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABc ABc BaBXbd XaXaeaXE AXE fXE dXE ccXe AXefbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,8,3,3,3,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010011110 10101 10100110 0010011110 10101 00100110 110111101 101 110111101 1101 1110111101 010101010 11 01111111 101 1100111110 111 101 1100000 110100001 0010011110 1100000 110100001 001011 1100000 110100001 11010111 1100000 110100001 0010111 0110101 1100000 1110011001 0010011110 100000 01111 1001010001 11101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    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; it, to, too, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words given, receive at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Make Impossibilities Your Possibility;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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