This is an analysis of the poem Living Has Its Risks that begins with:
Living, has its risks.
Living, can't be done to sit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBX AACB XX ABBX AACB DCEC DCAC ABBX DCEC DCACBCB ABBX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 1010101 10010 1001000 10101 11010100 111110 0011001 11111 011010101 10101 1010101 10010 1001000 10101 11010100 111110 0011001 10001010111 1111 10101110 0110100111 10001010111 1111 10101 111110 10101 1010101 10010 1001000 10001010111 1111 10101110 0110100111 10001010111 1111 10101 111110 0011001 111110 0011001 10101 1010101 10010 1001000
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; living, to, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word living is repeated.
The author used the same words living, wishing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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