This is an analysis of the poem Not Budging An Inch that begins with:
Never put up with fools lightly.
Show there is an edge to that patience....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcX ddaXcX cabXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110 110110110 1011 11101 1101 11 11101 11101 10011 1001101 010011 101011011 101 1111111 11010 01000011 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; put is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word someone is repeated.
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- summary of Not Budging An Inch;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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