This is an analysis of the poem Not Impressed By My Own Progress that begins with:
Could I afford 'not' to be happy?
After experiencing doses of it? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXbe adeXceXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110010 10010001000 11111010 11010101100 0010101011 1011011100 111 101011001101001 1010001101100 1100010100111 10101101010101010 1011001 0100011000010101 1110101 11001001011101 1110111111001000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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