This is an analysis of the poem Observed With Comprehension that begins with:
With failure wished upon others,
Comes failure granted for all....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bc DEBC DEBC fafdXdf DEBC gdfgfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,4,4,7,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010110 1101011 00100111 11000100100 100101 1111010 0101010 11001001 100101 1111010 0101010 11001001 1101001111 011111010 10101010100 10101010010 0111111010 10100110101 01110010100 100101 1111010 0101010 11001001 1101 11010 001000011 110010101 101001101101 00111011100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word exists at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Observed With Comprehension;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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