This is an analysis of the poem Life that begins with:

NAY, lift me to thy lips, Life, and once more
Pour the wild music through me -- ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aB cdefGhihi jkjchclmabhnioimXpiablchcc bmcnfpi aciod cbXkda jXXcfdXlkjbh icl cacbm bX amo mc bibc dlima dciehdipdiqmoi cibjeXqacbifk omefGqXXbccbicobhimaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,9,26,7,5,6,12,3,5,2,3,2,4,5,14,13,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110111111 1011011 11000011011 100111101 1101010100 1001110101 1011101101 1101110101 101111011 11011001001 01001010011 110111 1001010101 11001101001 1111110101 1101010101 1111110101 10011000111 00111001101 11000101001 10110101101 1001111111 1110011101 01010101001 1111010 111 110111011 1111110101 1111010101 10011011111 1111001111 0101010101 1111100111 1111110101 11011100111 0011010111 0101010111 1101011111 110101 01011010101 11110010101 1101010101 1110110101 1001010111 1101010111 1101110011 11011101111 1011110101 1111000101 1111110101 1101110101 01001010101 10101110101 11011100101 11111010001 1011111011 110011010110 1101011111 1111110011 1101011111 0101110111 1001010101 11001110111 01001110101 1111010111 11111011101 1101010111 1111010111 01001110101 10111011111 1101001101 01011100001 0101001101 11010001001 1111000111 1111110101 1111011111 1111010101 1101011111 1111110101 11110100001 1101101101 1110110101 1111010011 11110011111 010010010111 1001110001 1111011001 11100110111 0101010111 10010010001 1111011101 1011100101 1111110011 1011011100 0101010011 0011111101 10110010011 0101110101 11011111101 1111111101 1110110100 1111110101 0100111111 1001101101 11010110111 0101011100 0101001111 1101110011 1101111100 0001000101 11010111010 1101111011 1101110101 0101010101 0110110101 0101010101 0101010111 101001110101 1001110001 1111010100 1001110101 1011101101 10110001110 11110010111 11110110101 0101110111 1111001101 1101110101 1100010101 1111011101 1101011101 00110011111 1111011111 10110010111 1111110111 1110111111 1011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 138
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, he, i, of, thy, thee are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word we 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 ' is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Life;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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