This is an analysis of the poem The Laughing Heart that begins with:
your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXBcXcdBeffcecXAcdcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 11001001010 0101 1111 100111 0110111 01010 0101 01010110 10 10 11111 11110101 1011011010 011100 11011 101110 11100 011001 01
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 492
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; life, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, it, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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