This is an analysis of the poem Driven By A 'Drive' Makes Life Worth Living that begins with:

Each day we live to witness,
Has its own identity....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeff ecXXabafcad dfcXcX bgdfafX X d hggebegggfaa afcfffXghXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,6,7,1,1,12,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 1010100 1111101 0110101 11000 11010 110100 01110011011 01101101 101101000101011 1101011000 1101010010110 1101000100 1111110010 1111101101100 01011000111 101000 1010101 10101010110 100011 1010111100001 1001001010 11000010001001 110101011110 111010100 11110101111010 10011001 00101011 1111101111001 11001111 1101011010 1011 1101010 11 111011101100 110010101010 11001001 101010111010100 1100111111 10010111 111110100 101100111 111111111 1111101001 01001010 1111101 0111010 10101001 111000101 1010100011101 11110111101 1111111 1110111 1100101 0010111110 01110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to is repeated.

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