This is an analysis of the poem The Ones I Today Praise that begins with:
I will always praise those,
Who brave their pitfalls and move on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcaaXXb ABXcXaaX X ddccccXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 11111111 01010101010 1011101100 1110101 011010100 1101 0010101010100010 101111 11111111 11111101 1101011001 1101011 1010111 1011011 11110010100 11110110 0111100010 110 1101101 0101110001 100110 10 11101 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; it is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Ones I Today Praise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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