This is an analysis of the poem The Successful Man Has Thrust Himself that begins with:

The successful man has thrust himself
Through the water of the years, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbcXaabXXXXcXdXedaaebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001011101 1010000 101001 1001 10010010010 01010101010 100101 111010 10000101 001011 110100101 110010 0100100 01001001010 01010001001 10100100010101 1010101110 01010 11100101 01101001 11001001 10110 111010100 100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 781
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; with is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mistakes is repeated).

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