This is an analysis of the poem Sympathy Is Not Given that begins with:
Some stay stuck in ruts.
Never able to pull themselves up and out....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaccc adbXbcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 10100101111 10100100 101000010 1100010 011110011 1001 0111010 01101 110011001 1111 101000110 00111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Sympathy Is Not Given;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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