This is an analysis of the poem While It Is Alive that begins with:
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While it is alive... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXXbX XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10001 011100 1011111 1011 101100 11010111100 10110000010 10111001 10010001010 101011101000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word love is repeated.
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