This is an analysis of the poem You Who Live that begins with:
You who live now in this world
And which live sovereign in virtue,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAXXAB XXaABA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 11110010 00011010 11010011 101011110 1111001 11110010 11110111 01110001110 01001011110 1111001 11110010 00011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word because is repeated.
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