This is an analysis of the poem Man's Mission that begins with:
Human lives are silent teaching,
Be they earnest, mild, and true... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaacXcc dedeaaaaXa eXXXffgdXg ababeXcXXc ahXhaacddc hdhdXXiaai
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 0110111 10111010 0010101 1011010 10011010 1110001 10101000 10111100 1110101 11111110 1011101 10101110 0110111 10101010 11111010 0010101 10101010 01101000 1010111 111001110 1111100 11101100 1110101 11111010 11011010 1110101 11101010 1010100 1001101 10101010 1110001 10110010 1110101 10101110 0111100 1010001 10111010 0110101 001101 111000010 0010001 11101010 1010101 11101010 11101110 0011001 11111010 10111010 1011101 11111010 1110101 00100010 1011101 100101110 100101110 1011101 10101110 10101010 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; must, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, sufferings, like are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Man's Mission;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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