This is an analysis of the poem From Laughter To Labor that begins with:
We have wandered afar in our hunting for pleasure,
We have scorned the soul's duty to gather up treasure;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddXXbb bbeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010110110 1110110010110 1111110111110 111010011010 11001011011 111001111111 111011011010 001110010110 1111110010010 110110011010 11011101001 111001111111 1111101010110 1110111110110 111111111001 11111111101 111111101011 111001111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, for, have, our, and, of, now are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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