This is an analysis of the poem Limitations that begins with:
If you could crowd them into forty lines!
Yes; you can do it, once you get a start; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bXcccc Xaaa dede ffaagg hheXea acacififaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,4,6,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111000101 1111011101 1111010011 1101110111 0111011111 11111111110 0101110101 1111010101 1001110101 10011010111 1101011101 0101000111 11010101010 1101010111 1111010101 1111010001 11111100101 1111010111 1111110101 1111000101 1101010101 0110110101 1101011111 0101010111 1101011101 10110000101 11010111110 0100010001 01111100101 10001010011 1110110111 1101011101 1111101101 0101011111 0111010111 1111010111 1101110001 1101111101 010110100010 11001011110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Limitations;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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