This is an analysis of the poem Successful Mediocrity Is Worthless that begins with:
If anyone is not devoted to detail,
And they call themselves......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX aXXC CCCDBXCCCDB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001010001 11101 1000001 100101010 01010001 1100100001 0010 01010100010 01010100010 01010100010 01010100010 11010100 010100 01010100010 01010100010 01010100010 11010100 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, successful, mediocrity, worthless are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word successful is repeated.
The author used the same words if, successful at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines worthless is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word is at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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