This is an analysis of the poem Living that begins with:
To toil all day and lie worn-out at night;
To rise for all the years to slave and sleep,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbca daecc fadXfgeh cijcdgedjkdelckfidaXXlachfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111111111 0111000111 1111011101 0101010100 01001111111 0111010101 01010100001 0101110101 11010101010 011111110100 0101000101 0101010101 0101011101 01010111010 0101010111 1111010101 0001110001 0101110101 110101111101 1101000110 01010100111 0101110101 0101010101 0101000101 01010010101 1111011101 010101010011 01100100101 0111000101 01010101001 1100010101 110101111100 0101000111 0101000111 0101010101 0111011101 1100010101 0101101101 1111010100 0101010101001 100101010101 0111010111 111101000101 1111110101 01110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, life, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, but are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Living;
- central theme;
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