This is an analysis of the poem When Life Is But A Round Of Crushing Care that begins with:

When life is but a round of crushing care
And, a great heap of stones, lies heavy on us,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacc daXdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010101 10110111011 11001111011 0101010101 011001110110 01010101010 1101010001 11010111011 1101011001010 0101011101 01010100010 101100110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).

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