This is an analysis of the poem Having Experienced Life And Obstacles that begins with:

Wouldn't it be great to erase each moment,
We lived in the doing of making conscious mistakes! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcad de fbdbdghb bi agcej Xggjbeg gjXegi gfjabXaXe jeXhagj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,8,2,5,7,6,9,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001001110 1100100101001 100010011110100 0001001 111010111 10001010101 11010 110 11110 0110111101010001 001010011 11011010 01011010101100 1010001001001001 011101101010101 10011110000101 0111111 1010101 101010 1101010100100 10011 10111 0111010 11010100110 01001010101010000101 11001100100111010 010010010 1 01001110111110100 100100111000101110 01 10 1001 111011 100010011111 1011010101000100110 10101000100010 01110101 0001001 110010111001 100000 010010101 0111010101010001 01 0100100001 100101010 00100110 1011001011 111001000101010 100100010011 1001000100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, those, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.

    The author used the same word wouldn't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Having Experienced Life And Obstacles;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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