This is an analysis of the poem Live Your Life Enjoyed that begins with:

If you intend to live your life enjoyed...
Why should that be announced? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCCD deXfa Xebggadfdhbb ABCCD Xgdgeahe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,12,5,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101011101 111001 1001010010 0110001 110110010 1010100101010 010100010001 100100111 1 0110001000 1111000100 101 1 10 1 1101 1010100010 1 101010100010 0010 00010010011 101000101101001101 0101011101 111001 1001010010 0110001 110110010 01 1011010111100100 01100110101011 101110101111 10110110111001 010010001 010 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

    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; and, to, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that's is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Live Your Life Enjoyed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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