This is an analysis of the poem One Step At A Time that begins with:
Challenged.
To face my own insecurities....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX bcb aXXdXcXaXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 011110100 1101111 1011010100 000101001 11100110 10 1 101111010 10101011110 01001011 01010111 111 11101 00100111101 0101 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word challenged at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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