This is an analysis of the poem Life To Live Is Not A Death Sentence that begins with:
Fresh is the keeping of one's innocence.
Jaded an aging mind can become, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDdXc AcadXebe ABCDffXedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001100 101101101 11101000 001111111001 1101101100 010010011001001 1001011011100 1001001100 100101010 100010101010 1010101010 01110101 011010110011 0000111 01010110110101 1001001100 101101101 11101000 001111111001 11101 1110010100101 11010101100100010 01010001010001000100 10100110000010101 1000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, it, be are repeated.
The author used the same word fresh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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