This is an analysis of the poem The Best Doing Of A Done That I Did And Could Do that begins with:
Do I undo?
To improve upon that which has been done? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXca deaXedeaacaXbaec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 0010111101 1 0000100 01010001110 001 111010 01010110 001101 10011100 00111010 0101000110 01010100010 111010001 1 110 1001010100111 000100 101111101011 10110001110111 0101010110 1010100011110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; i, that, done are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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