This is an analysis of the poem The Ultimate Reward that begins with:
Whatever that is you are,
With a taste for making false impressions....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX XXXd ebda febfXdcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 0011101010 11011001 1111101010 100101111 01111010101 100110101 1100101100010 111110010100 11011010001 111101001010 1101010111111 10100100101001 110101010100 10101010111 000100011010101 101010010001 000100100 1011111 1010010100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to are repeated.
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- summary of The Ultimate Reward;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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