This is an analysis of the poem Friend, Hope For The Guest While You Are Alive that begins with:
Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXb acd cefeXgbXd XX Xgcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,9,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110111101 100010011101 11111101 11110001001 011 0111111101 111 101010 00101010100010 101010010 101100 1011011 011101 10101101010 001001 0111000110011 101010101010 1100011110100 010011 101010101011 00001000010101 11101 111110101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, while, alive are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alive is repeated).
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