This is an analysis of the poem Life's Greatest Big Top that begins with:

Life to live is like,
Being in the midst of a festival....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabccdeafad BbXdggagdd BeebgfhXbbffhfXXe BgBaXdebabg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,10,17,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101 1000100100 111010 011011 1000101 11101000 11011 1101010 101 0010001010 01110001 111011 11 1010001 11101111 001001 1000001 10100010 011 111011101 1011 111 11 10110101 11100011 01010101 01011011 10010 11100101 1011011 0110110 0101 01 010101010 1 10110010 110011 1101010 1000010001 11 1101011 11 1011111 01111110 11 1111010101 0101010001 1001011 110111 01001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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 is repeated.

    The author used the same word strange at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Life's Greatest Big Top;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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