This is an analysis of the poem Only Those Who Do It that begins with:
And with fears to disgard...
As they cross a bridge, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaba ccdbde adabXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 11101 00101011 1110100011 11001001101 111001001101 1101111011 01001001001 0010101 01110110101 10010010001 0110011001011 1110100 100100011 110100001011001 11001 001101 11111001110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
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- summary of Only Those Who Do It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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