This is an analysis of the poem I Chose To Like My Own Life that begins with:
I chose to like my own life.
It wasn't easy then to do it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCdd bXcXe fbfccgXc abbc ghgi AbXcXeXc AfCX XceXXii AhhfcXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,4,4,8,4,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101111 010101010 1101010 01010100100 101110100 1101111 101000 1 1111100 01101 11010101 1001011 1100111101 11001010111 101111 01011101 11101 11010101 11101111 11011100 101011111 11111010 110111101 111 01 001010111 101110111 111011111 101000 1 1111100 01101001 01010111 01011 1101111 010101 1101010 101111 101011 110 111011 011011010 0101001010 10101 0100111 101110111 1111 01111101 1 101110101 1100001 010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, and, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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