This is an analysis of the poem Life And Those Who Live It that begins with:
What you tell others you do for me,
And how you regard my presence in your life......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab acbca XcaX XbXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101111 11101110011 11111101011010 111010011110 1101101010001011 110110011101000100 0111110111111 110100111001 10110110101101 010111101110111 00110100 01111101 01101 010111011010 01010010 011111001 111110 100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; you, what, i've, to, your, i, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i've, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Life And Those Who Live It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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