This is an analysis of the poem Whatever Is - Is Best that begins with:
I know as my life grows older,
And mine eyes have clearer sight, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXXXB cdbddbab XcacdbXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110 1111101 110110111 110101 11101010 101001100 111101110 110001 11111010 1110111 0111110 10100101 11101010 0110101 101110010 1110001 1111110 0010101 1111010 1010001 111111110 0010101 111111110 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word best at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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