This is an analysis of the poem Something About Forever That Is Never Guaranteed that begins with:
If anyone is unclear,
As to whose accustomed greed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXdec cbfceagch cecX c GDDX hXg fXh iib GDDddX b gX XadXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,4,1,4,3,3,3,6,1,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100001 1010101 1001000101 11100100110 01001010 1010110101 1010101 0101101 000100111010 10101001 100010010 00100110 101000110 01001 1001011001 1110111010 0111010110 111 111011001 11000110101 11000101 111101111 1010 11010 111011001 1111101101 1011010101001 1010110101010 110110111 1110100100100 110011111 001100110101 110 101001010 1010101 1010 11010 111011001 111110110 1011100011010 10110111011 111 11010 10100 11001011 11110101 1110111001 11 1001011111 101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, we, they are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Something About Forever That Is Never Guaranteed;
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- idea of the verse;
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