This is an analysis of the poem No One Should Fear Failure that begins with:

No one lives without making a few mistakes.
And no one lives everyday to like everything tasted....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXXdbcaX ddbcXbXece
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101100101 11111010110110 0100100110 00100111110110 100 01000110110 1100101010101 000101 10001010101010 111001000010001 111110110 11101010010010 010011001010 1110110001110 110001101010111 1101011010 111111101111 1110101010 01010001011101 1111101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 460
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

    The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of No One Should Fear Failure;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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