This is an analysis of the poem There Is A Lesson In This that begins with:
When one confesses that they have not been their best.
There is a lesson in this many don't expect....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABC ADADAEBFC ADADAEBFC AAABC GAHA GAHA EhGAHAE AAABCXGAHAE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,9,5,4,4,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101111011 100100010101 110101111011 11010001 0100011110101 110101111011 11010 00100010101 10010 11100011101 0100 11010001 010001 110101 110101111011 11010 00100010101 10010 11100011101 0100 11010001 010001 110101 110101111011 100100010101 110101111011 11010001 0100011110101 11 111 110101 111011 11 111 110101 111011 01010 1 11 111 110101 111011 01010 110101111011 100100010101 110101111011 11010001 0100011110101 11 111 110101 111011 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
The author used the same words when, all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words stress, best at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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