This is an analysis of the poem Success that begins with:
You ask me what I call Success -
It is, I wonder, Happiness?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbaaccaacc aaddaaeeaa ffgghhiiddXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 00110100 00110011 1111011001 00110001 11011101 00110001 01010101 01000001 11001001 11110011 10010001 11110101 01111001 11010001 11110101 11111101 10000101 11010010 11010100 10010111 11011101 01011101 11011101 11010101 10010111 01010101 11111111 11010001 11110101 11011101 11000101 11110101 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; nor, it, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Success;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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