This is an analysis of the poem The World that begins with:
The world is world of ups and downs,
A world of smiles and frowns....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcd eeffXXggbb cdhhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 010111 0111001 1101000101 11101010 110011010011 0110001010 1010010110 110101 1101101 111011 01101 1101111110 1101001110 0010101110101 110110011101 110111010 1101001011 1110111 111111 1100101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, world, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we, when are repeated.
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