This is an analysis of the poem To Reach Beyond Those Yesterdays that begins with:
I am not here to avoid the living of life.
Or choose to follow the path of scattered pieces....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111100101001 110100101010 1010101000100001 110001010100101110 01011101 001001101 01001100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; of is repeated.
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