This is an analysis of the poem Overcoming Admitted Mistakes that begins with:

Overcoming admitted mistakes made,
And wrongs to have done to anyone......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacbdebcff fccXfccc XX fXdb gX ec XdX gcXg XgXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,2,4,2,2,3,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010011 110110100 0110010 11001001 01011110001 11010 01101010 1101 1101 1010011 01111000111 110011001010 0100101001010 11010001100 10111 010110111001 1010100101 110010010111 00100100001001 111101 10110000100110 011011000101 01000110101 10101001001 11011101 101101 1001110101 11101 1 1 111010010 1101010111100 1111101 1110111011 11111 10010101000 1 1101101 11011011 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Overcoming Admitted Mistakes;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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