This is an analysis of the poem Why Do You Strive For Greatness, Fool? that begins with:
Why do you strive for greatness, fool?
Go pluck a bough and wear it. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX bbbbbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 1101110 001100 1111100100 11110 1001010 111001011110 11111110011 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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