This is an analysis of the poem The Bar Has Been Raised Much Too High that begins with:
There is a standard set,
In the best of an idealistic premise......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca daef dfXg efba HFGDDCX HFGDDCXXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 001010101010 011010 111010 1101010 00100001 111110 10010100100 1001010001 01100100010 0101010101 01101111 010011 10111010 10100010 011011010 11 010101 1111 01010 01010 110100010 1000 11 010101 1111 01010 01010 110100010 1000 0001001101 110100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; for, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word 'the 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 lowered is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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