This is an analysis of the poem Who Takes The Next Step? that begins with:
If I had not felt from you,
Inspiration to provide me with incentive......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbccX ddcded fXgcXXf X ah adX Xc cXcXXhge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,1,2,3,2,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101 101000110010 110111111 111010010001 00101 10 1110001010 110111010 11111010 0111010001 100010010010 1001001101 101100101010 1111001010 00100100 11011 1111111 00111000 10001111001 010010010010 1111 11 111101 11 1111 1111 0 01 11101010001 111111 11100110101 111 11 11 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; to, if are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, if are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase if connects the lines.
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- summary of Who Takes The Next Step?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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