This is an analysis of the poem Access To Live Excessively that begins with:
Where would some people be?
What kind of lives would we all live, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccbbdX eaXacdXXX edXaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111100 11011111 0101101011110 10100 1111010100 101100 0111010 11110000101 01110100100100 1 101011111 0100110001001 10101010101 100110101011010 0011001101 00010011010000 011011110101 1010001001100 1 0011 0010101111110 11011111 111001001001 0010011110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Access To Live Excessively;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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