This is an analysis of the poem Skipping Around Obstacles that begins with:
It would be great if experience to one came,
Without the sacrificing of time......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaX bb cdae ecce Acfdcc fg XhaX bgeeef dfhc biicbiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,4,6,2,4,6,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100100011 010101001 011111 101101011011 10001 001001001 1110010 11010001 100110100 0010111001 01001011100 001001011011 111110100 1100101 010100100011 10110101101 11111 11010010 101111 01111 101000100 101101001 101010 001001101110 111 11 0110100100 00010011101 11111001101 10110101 1100101000011 0110010111 01001111100110 11001100 011010100111101 010010100111 11111110100 110101 1011011 10111011 11100110110100 1 11111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; it, one are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Skipping Around Obstacles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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