This is an analysis of the poem That Better That You Do For You that begins with:
You can not make me any better,
Than the better I make myself....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC deFA DeFA ABCC DeFA deFAXfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111010 10101111 11110101 0111111 1111 1 1101110011 1111010 1111 1 0101110011 1111010 111111010 10101111 11110101 0111111 1111 1 1101110011 1111010 11 1 0101110011 1111010 1101110101 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; better, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines better is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word better at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of That Better That You Do For You;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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