This is an analysis of the poem Live To Be Unlimited that begins with:
Don't you ever,
Stop wanting doing your best....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baca BABCA BABCAa BXBdX BXBXX beeEeXBeaeEed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,6,5,5,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 1101011 10110101 00001 11101010 1101001 110011001 10110101 1000100 1010101 1000100 1010001 111 1000100 1010101 1000100 1010001 111 0101 1000100 1110101 1000100 1101111 111 1000100 11111111 1000100 10111 111111 111000100 1 0101010101 01 1 1000100 1 111010 01 01 10111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don't is repeated.
The author used the same word live 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 fear is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fear connects the lines.
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