This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Life: 73. The Choice, Iii that begins with:
Think thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die
Outstretch'd in the sun's warmth upon the shore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaaXbacacaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 0100110101 111010101110 1100100111 1101110111 101111011010 1100111111 1111111111 1111000111 1001011101 1110111001 101101010110 1111111101 1101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 769
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; thou is repeated.
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