This is an analysis of the poem In A Suffered Suffocating that begins with:
If a doing causes you undo strife,
Why is it there in your life to live? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcXddc ccXEB DdXDCDFXABEBDCDFf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101011 100101101 1 01010111 1101101 1110100111 1111010001 1111111 1111 00111010101010 111100101010 110101001 10101101111 10111110101 11110101 10101101111 101111101 001010111 010100111 0010101011 100101101 111100101010 110101001 10101101111 101111101 001010111 010100111 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, to are repeated.
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- summary of In A Suffered Suffocating;
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