This is an analysis of the poem What It Has Taken that begins with:
I am going to do the best I can,
With what I've got....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abBCaaXdb aXXb BCXXX dabXbXXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010111 0111 10010 1110000011 100101 1110110 0111010 0001010110 111000101 10101010 1101111 01101 01111110 10010 1110000011 10101001 01011100 101011101 11010111 10110 01111010 001010011010 1101111 0010000011010 1010110100001 101010010101 110111011111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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