This is an analysis of the poem Some Good Advice that begins with:
Now don't you be discouraged because you 're in a hole ;
Misfortune nerves a thoro' man : disaster daunts a fool ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aa a b X aX A c d a ecA Xa X XA Xa X XA bba bA e d ac eA bf af A f afXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,3,2,1,2,2,1,2,3,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11100100111001 01010101010101 01000100011101 01011101010101 1101110111001 11011100101 11 1101010111000111 111110100111001 1101111110001 1101110101100 1 110111001111 101 111110100111001 100101010101010 1101010010101 110101010110 1010 111100100111001 10101010101000 00010010010111 011011101111 11 111100100111001 010010100110001 0101011111011 1 11010101110011 111110100111001 1101110100101 0111010001110 1 1111010100110 11 111100100111001 1101010111011 1 010101011101011 111101010101001 111100100111001 010001001101 1100010010011 100101011110111 111100100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, you, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Some Good Advice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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