This is an analysis of the poem Strong And Confident that begins with:
I understand those,
Who chased the taste of money....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abaa cbdd AXXc daaa ddcaXdaaXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 1101010 110011 1101010 1111101100 10100010010 0111101 101110110010 11011 1101 01100 111 0100110101 0111010 11010 00100111 111111100 1100101 11011010010 010011111 110011 110011 1111 00010100100001 110100111 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Strong And Confident;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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