This is an analysis of the poem Live Life To Give And Believe that begins with:
Adore each sight from rooftops seen.
And every hill that rolls on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AA BCD EEFGHEFEE AA BCD EEFGHEFEE EE EXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,9,2,3,9,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 11001111 0110111111 1100 01 1101001 1111 110010010 011100010 010100 100101 10101 1101 101 01110111 11001111 0110111111 1100 01 1101001 1111 110010010 011100010 010100 100101 10101 1101 101 1101 101 1101 1 01
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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, it are repeated.
The author used the same word live at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word believe at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Live Life To Give And Believe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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