This is an analysis of the poem Life Is A Privilege that begins with:
Life is a privilege. Its youthful days
Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aXeeffgg aahhiidd ffjjjjii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001000101 100100001001 01010101010 010101010010 01010010101 01010011001 0111010101 1100110001 1001001111 01000010110 11010011111 11010111001 1101010011 0101010011 1111010111 0101010100 10010010101 1111010101 1111000101 1011010001 1101110011 100100100111 1001011111 1100001101 1001000111 1101010101 0101111111 1100110001 1011010001 01010010101 1001011111 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, and, of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, what are repeated.
The author used the same word life at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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