This is an analysis of the poem Successful Failure that begins with:
I wonder if successful men
Are always happy?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbc bdbdecec dfdfaXae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 11110 11110111 11010 11110111 11010 11110101 110 11000101 10010 10110101 11010 11110101 11010 11011101 110 11011101 11110 11010011 01110 10010101 1110 01011101 010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, for are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Successful Failure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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