This is an analysis of the poem Calamity And Vanity that begins with:
Living a life to believe it's meant,
To pray for things to get....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbacdCBBB EffdcXCBBBEaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100100101 011101 101100 00100101 1011101 0111011 11 101001101 11000101 101011101 1001 10101010 1010101010101 01001100010010100 1010101010111 01011100101 10100001011101 011111010111 010101011101 101011101 1001 10101010 1010101010101 01001100010010100 11111100110000 00111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 501
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an is repeated.
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