This is an analysis of the poem Human Life’s Mystery that begins with:
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn,
We build the house where we may rest, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdab eaffea gfbbgf haiiha jkeejk jXXXjj lhkklh mahhma fjhhfj Xndcfn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11011111 11110100 11100111 0100100101 110111 01010111 01010101 11100101 11000101 11110001 010111 11000111 100010011 01010111 110010001 0100101100 010101 10010111 01110101 10111111 11010101 01011100 111111 11010100 11011011 0100111 01110111 11110101 111001 01011001 001101000 001101100 01110100 01110111 0111110 11010101 11100101 11110111 11010111 11011111 010111 11011101 110101001 11011101 00010100 11011101 110101 10110111 00111101 11111101 11010101 11000101 110011 10111101 11100101 11110111 01001100 11010111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, of, our are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Human Life’s Mystery;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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