This is an analysis of the poem Life's Slacker that begins with:
The saddest sort of death to die
Would be to quit the game called life...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccX dedefgfg ffffghghXacaccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 10010111 11010101 11010001 11011111 01011111 11111101 110111110 11110110 01110100 11011111 11000101 11110101 111101011 10110101 11110001 11110111 11011111 11011101 01110101 01111111 01010101 11110111 11111101 01001101 11110101 110100001 11010111 11111111 11010111 11010101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; that, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, some are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Life's Slacker;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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