This is an analysis of the poem They Had Made No Efforts that begins with:

Are you pleased with those deeds that you did were done?
And even if the doing did not please everyone......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXcbcXbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111001 1100010011101 011000100110 1011011111 1 11111101111 10110111101101 01111110110001 1101111011001010 11 111101111 1100010011001 1100100010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.

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  • summary of They Had Made No Efforts;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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