This is an analysis of the poem As You Go Through Life that begins with:
Don’t look for the flaws as you go through life;
And even when you find them, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdXd Xefefgbg ahdhciei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111111 1101110 0011100111 111010010 1010110101 11001110 00101101101 101101010 0100111001 001001110 111110101 11010010 110110101 01001011 1110101101 11110111 010100101 01110010 111111111 1010110010 00100100100 1110110010 010110011 110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of As You Go Through Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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