This is an analysis of the poem The Pleasures Of Ordinary Life that begins with:
I've had my share of necessary losses,
Of dreams I know no longer can come true....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbC adaddC efeefC egeggc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101010 0111110111 01100110100 0101101111 0101010101 0100110101 11010111010 1110110011 11000101010 1100110101 1100011101 0100110101 11110101010 0101011100 01010001110 1111010100 0111111111 0100110101 110001010100 1101110101 011101001100 0101110101 111111101 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it's, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word life at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sweet connects the lines.
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