This is an analysis of the poem Earning The Life I Live that begins with:
While earning the life I live,
With a knowing what I wanted......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbbcbda AXefXgfe Ahecae abggdedX AdXfbhb eXgahcha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,6,8,7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111 00101110 001110010 10111101 1101010111 1001001101 10101001 01100101001 1100111 101101000 01101011111 111001001001 11010101 0110101 10111110 1111010111010100 1100111 111100010010001 1010101010100 11001100101010101 0010010011011101 0101110110101 100111 00100011 10101100101 1010010100101 10101101101 1110010100101 010011111100110 01100111101 1100111 111010111111 11000011110 1011001101111 1110011010 11011111110 111110101 10011101010 1110010 11011100 11100111 1111111101 111111101 010000100011001 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word while at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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