This is an analysis of the poem Living In The Body that begins with:
Body is something you need in order to stay
on this planet and you only get one....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbbcX XdXddXcX eefcffaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101101001 1010111011 11101111001 010100010100 01001010100 1111110110 1110001011 01101101101 1000111010 0110001110 11110011001 1111001010 1101111100 1101110010 010111111 1010010100 1000111101 010001110111 110101010111 100111011 11011101 1000111001 11011111 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, and, same are repeated.
The author used the same word body at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines will, the, you are repeated).
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- summary of Living In The Body;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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