This is an analysis of the poem The Shortness Of Life that begins with:
And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage,
Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccX ddd eee fff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010100 1100111101 0111110101 1101010001 0011011101 1011100101 11010101010 1111011011010 0101010101 0111011111 1100111101 0111111111 1111010111 11001010101 1100111111 1111010101 0101110001 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Shortness Of Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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