This is an analysis of the poem I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown that begins with:
I live, I die, I burn, I drown
I endure at once chill and cold...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbX XXba XXaXaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111111 10111111 101111111 111101001 10011110111 1010100101 11001110101 111111111 111011000 1111010101 011000101 11111110 11100100101 1111010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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