This is an analysis of the poem Perhaps Progress Will Soon Begin To Move Forward that begins with:

Now a serious argument takes place among them,
To remove the word 'retarded' from their records kept! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabc aXX cXd Xbe edXXbcXXb dc badecX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,3,9,2,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010011010 0010110001011 110010100100100 1111010001010001 111001 01011010101 10001110 10011001110010 111010010001010 1110100101010 01011011000110 111001011010111 01110110001010 01010101000010 11101010 11101001100000010 100 111 110001000100101 010110001000 0101001010000101 1101010100 111010011101 010010101 110110010100 1011100001000 1011101010110 01 1110110110100 100101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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  • summary of Perhaps Progress Will Soon Begin To Move Forward;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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