This is an analysis of the poem Who's Better Than The One Who's Done It that begins with:

Who's best to deliver and with an expected...
Consistency....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab X cab cX CXCCXX Db XCCCX Ab XCX D XX A XCaXCCX D cCCX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,3,2,6,2,5,2,3,1,2,1,7,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010101010 0100 11010111010101 11001001001 1 00100 1101011101010 11010111010101 01110 1 100100001 01110 1 100101000 1100110101 1001000100 1 01110 100100001 01110 100101000 1101100101 100100100 1 110101110 1110101111 1100110101 1 1101011101 1101100101 1 110101110 111000101 1 110101110 1110101110 1110001010 1100110101 1110101110 110101110 1110101110 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

    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; who's is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who's is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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