Question

FROM POEM IT COULDN'T BE DONE
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure..

a. What effect will these negative comments have on someone who is attempting a difficult task?

b. What should we do in the face of such comments?​

Answer 1

Answer:

It Couldn’t Be Done’ by Edgar Albert Guest is a three-stanza poem that is separated into sets of eight lines, or octaves. Guest structured each of these octaves with a consistent rhyme scheme. The lines follow the pattern of ababcdcd, alternating as the poet saw fit from stanza to stanza. There are moments in which rhymes are repeated though. The most prominent of these is with the end sound “-it.” The end sound appears twice in the first stanza, four times in the second, and twice in the third. The sound is a unifying element that helps to connect each octave. The same can said for “one” which appears twice in the first stanza and twice in the third.