This is an analysis of the poem Trying To Gain Momentum that begins with:
I've been praised, humiliated, degraded and ignored.
By the very same foes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXd aeaXXbecdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010010101 101011 11101011011 010101010 00111011011 1101001010100 00100010 011101000100101 001001010010101 11010011010101001 11001010111010 0110011 00100010 011010110 1110001010 011011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; of is repeated.
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- summary of Trying To Gain Momentum;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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