This is an analysis of the poem For The Living that begins with:
IF you like a brother here,
Tell him so; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccb bdbdeeed fafaggga ccccgggc XgXgbbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 111 0110101 111 1010111 1011101 1111111 001 1110101 010 1010001 111 0011001 0011101 1111101 101 1110101 101 1111101 101 1010111 1011111 1111101 101 1110001 111 1011101 100 1110001 1111111 1010111 111 11101010 111 11101010 101 11101011 01101011 10111111 011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, what, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, would are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines so is repeated).
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- summary of For The Living;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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