This is an analysis of the poem To Do It Standing Tall that begins with:
I've been a grown man since I was a child.
With chores, duties and responsibilities assigned, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbb cdXceeed fXXcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111101 0110101010001 110010101 1111000001 0010011111 01010 111111010 1001010000 001101 011001010 10110100 100110100 111011010 111100111 11111001 011 1110100 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, i, and are repeated.
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- summary of To Do It Standing Tall;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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