This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of Life that begins with:
Never give up, though life be a battle
Wherein true men may fail, and true causes be sold; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcdccd efeefXebeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110010 011111111001 1101110110 010011010110 11001101001 1011110011 11101101101 1111110011 1011011111101 01011011101 1111010110 101111001101 10010110110 11011111010 101011111001 00111010110 111011101111 111111011110 111110110010 11001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fight is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of The Battle Of Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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