This is an analysis of the poem Upset With His Progress that begins with:
No one expected him to be as qualified as he is.
They believed his leadership would be a joke....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB acdefX ggXh dXee aeheeea Xgg ABBfgeh eagg X g cghhhhXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,4,4,7,3,7,4,1,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001101110 10101011001 11001001101111 110111 011010 0010110100 1001011 100100010101 000101011100 1111110 1001001101 1001100010 1010011001 1111011010011 100101 01001101 10000010 1001110 1001010001 11011110101 100111010 010101 1100110101 1010100111100 100110000100101 101110010010 10101000001 110101001101110 10101011001 11001001101111 1110010 110101 101010 010011 1111 1110101 11100110001 100111101101 1101 111111 111010110 010100 111000100 1001110010 11011101 010001001101110 1110101110 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, to are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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