This is an analysis of the poem The 'Potential' For Greatness Is There that begins with:
If a greatness is indeed appreciated,
Wouldn't it take more than one to satiate the taste? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XccX XXXccdeb XdXXX XbeXa X XaX cXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,5,5,1,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000101010 100111101001 011001010 101001101 1 11 111 0100110010 1 11010010001 11 11 1101010111 1110101010 1010100 1111 111 110010 010 11111101011 10101000101101 01 11101001 1111111101001 001101 10001011100011 1111010111001 1 111010 010011001 1111 011110 0010110110 010 10110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
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