This is an analysis of the poem Setup To Fail that begins with:
When you come to test someone,
You believe is unprepared? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCXdXXbX ebXa ABCCXdcae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1010101 100100 1000101 11 100 01110111 0110100 110101 1000100011 1010010 111110 101011 1001110 1110111 1010101 100100 1000101 11 100 0100 111001 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; you, your are repeated.
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- summary of Setup To Fail;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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