This is an analysis of the poem Over-Ride that begins with:
Delete perfection to seek it.
We all are a work in progress....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAcdcc AbAeDFC ADFC ECcCgCXECcCgC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010010 11101011 01010010 1101000101 10101 111101 00100101 01010101010 0010100100101 01010101010 0110101001001 0101010101 0101101100 0101 01010010 0101010101 0101101100 0101 111101111 0101 1 100101 1 1101 111101111 0101 1 100101 1 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; perfection, to are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ride at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Over-Ride;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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