This is an analysis of the poem Too Much Liberty that begins with:

If you get upon your legs to start a new reform,
And pull your jacket off, reformation to begin, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXb cd cXd dX e dXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,3,2,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110111010101 1111011010001 1010000011011101 10111011010 110 011010101010001 11010100010101 010101100110001 1101110111100 1 111010101110100 110101011111 101 1110101110101 11111101000101 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, of are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Too Much Liberty;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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