This is an analysis of the poem Choice Days To Live that begins with:
Pending are,
Those choice days to live....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcbc XcXd AXcdXcXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 11101 1001 11001 11010000 1111010 1111 11001 11101001 101 101001 10111 01111100 0100101 10101111 101010 110111101 11101 01011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 none is repeated.
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- summary of Choice Days To Live;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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