This is an analysis of the poem What Can Be Corrected Takes Initiative And Effort that begins with:
Some believe their lives,
Should be lived with repetitions of chances......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdef XXdbgg dggfahh ghegaacd hXaaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,8,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 10101010010 101010 10111000010 01001 111110 1001100 10110101100100 10010011011 11010001011 0100010000101 000010 10010001 11100100 0001000100111001 11010010 110111100101 1100110 111010001001 11001010100110 11101101110 111001011 10110110100010100 1101001101010 0010110100 11010101000110 01101011010 001000100010100 10101101101 0100010 11110011101 001011010 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; from, of, to are repeated.
The author used the same words some, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What Can Be Corrected Takes Initiative And Effort;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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