This is an analysis of the poem You Will Not Have To Go Too Far that begins with:

Keep your eye on those,
Who make claims to be something they are not....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXab AcXb AXcc DDAXXAaaDD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 1110010111 111001111 110 1001101 11111 1001100101 011001010 0010110101 11111 11010111 0010101 01001011001 10110111 01011111101 11111 110001101101001 11111 11110101 0101101 10110111 01011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word keep at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of You Will Not Have To Go Too Far;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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