This is an analysis of the poem A Life's Story that begins with:
THE morning broke in a pearly haze,
Then the east grew duskly red: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dXdX eded fgfa eceX hhhh bdbX gigi cdcd Xhchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010100101 1011101 1110111101 01101011 1011100101 0111101 1011101111 10100111 01101101001 01101110 1111111111 00111101 01100101011 1111111 110100111 0101111 011110101 1100101 110110111 11111100 0100111101 101001000 110111101 1110101 1010101101 1111101 1100101011 1111101 010110101 1100111 1110100111 1110101 1011110111 1110111 1101100111 11111011 011110111 1111111 0111110111 11111101 01111000101 101001001 1100111101 111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; day, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words perhaps, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, perhaps at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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