This is an analysis of the poem Disregarding One's Gift Of Life that begins with:
We all have made those decisions,
To live the kind of life we like....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB acXa daaXdef ABXaefecd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111010 01010111 11100011101 10100101 101 111011001 11111011 110110 1001101 1010101 010111 11010 01111 11111010 01010111 1111110101 0101100 101011001 0111001101 110101101 11010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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 and is repeated.
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