This is an analysis of the poem Sunshine And Shadow that begins with:
Life has its shadows, as well as its sun;
Its lights and its shades, all twined together.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccaa dbdbeeff agaghhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111101 0110111010 1101001111 10110010010 11111111 1100111001 1111111110 1111110001 101011101101 010010011010 11011011111 1110111010010 001001011001 01101001101 01101111011 11101001001 11101111101 1101101110 101011111110 1011011011010 101101011001 1111111011 1111011101 11001101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, i, of are repeated.
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