This is an analysis of the poem The Double Life that begins with:
How very simple life would be
If only there were two of me...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeddcc aXffXXgg eeddhhcc iiddXXjjXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110 01010101 01010111 01010111 01010101 01011111 11110111 10010101 11110101 10010111 11011101 11011101 11001101 11011101 11001101 11011000 01010101 01010101 11010110 01111100 01011111 11010101 01001101 11010101 11010101 01110101 010101001 110100101 11010111 01111111 11100101 01011101 01011001 01011101 11111111 11111111 11110111 11110101 01010111 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; me, and, one, says are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, for, with, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Double Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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