This is an analysis of the poem Know Your Life that begins with:
You've got to be,
Alive....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbACDEfG gXhgAIgHGjcGJ AbACDEfGGjcGJ JB JB JB JB AbBDEBDdBAIBGHBGHBGJBGJh KGGKGGKGgKJfCXJfC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,13,13,2,2,2,2,24,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100 01 1100 0101 1101 11010 1 110111 1101 101 11001 1011 1100 1111 0 111111 01 1 1 01 11 1100 01 1100 0101 1101 11010 1 110111 01 1 1 01 11 0111 10011001 0111 10110101 0111 10011001 0111 10110101 1100 01 10110101 1101 11010 10110101 1101 1111101 10110101 1100 1111 10110101 110 111111 10110101 110 111111 10110101 110 111 10110101 110 111 101 110 1100101 0110101 110 1100101 0110101 110 1100101 011010 110 111 1 1010 111 1 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, live, go are repeated.
The author used the same words you've, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines life is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words life, live, righteous at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Know Your Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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