This is an analysis of the poem It Is Just The Way It Is that begins with:
Who are they to self righteously say,
How I should live my life? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABacde eefcXg ddefhX gahgfd ABdffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011001 111111 10101001 1110100100010 11110010010 0011010101010 111101101 1100101001 1100011010 10101110101 1001011100 01101010001 101110110101101 11010011010100101 1110110010 0010100 1111001100111 0011111111001 11110111 110010100011110 11011101 11111010100 1111100001100100 01111101 111011001 111111 111101 110010101010 11110110110 001001011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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