This is an analysis of the poem Self and Life that begins with:
SELF
Changeful comrade, Life of mine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdcdd adbdbbebeffdd agcgcXd ahchccicijjkk ablblff acaXamlmldddX acgcgnn abcXcggoohhcc aacacpp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,13,7,13,7,13,7,13,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10011101 011111 1011111 111011 1111101 1011001 1 1111011101 1111010101 1101010101 1011010101 11010101 101001001 11010101 10101011 1010101 1011100 0111011 1111111 1 1111111 110111 1011111 110101 1010011 1011101 1 0101110101 1111011111 1111011101 0111010101 11010101 10110101 10111111 1111101 1110101 11100101 1110101 1001001 1 1011110 1000111 1110101 010101 1011101 10010101 1 1111011001 1101010101 01101010101 0101111101 11010101 1010101 11010101 1010101 1111101 0101101 1110101 1010100 1 1010101 110101 1110101 110001 1010111 11111101 1 1111011101 0101011111 10010010100 11010100001 11110111 10011101 111111010 1001100 110000100 1011111 1111101 1010111 1 110111001 111001 1111111 110101 1010111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word was is repeated.
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- summary of Self and Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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