This is an analysis of the poem Living Under Pressure that begins with:
It is the pressure of success that has the people affected.
A pressure kept that people keep to want others impressed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABCBCDCBCBCBCDCBDDDDADACBCDDDDDAX ECC DCC ECCC DCCXDCCCECEba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,3,3,4,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001000111010010 01011101011001 0001000111010010 01011101011001 11 101010011 11 101110001 1111110101 1100010101001 1111110101 1100010101001 11 101010011 11 101110001 1111110101 1100010101001 10101010101001 01001 01001 10101010101001 1011010 10101010101001 1011010 11 101010011 11 101110001 10101010101001 01001 01001 10101010101001 1011010 1011010 101010 0101 10001001 101010001001 0101 001 101010 0101 10001001 10001001 101010001001 0101 001 101010001001 0101 001 11 1010 11 1010 1111100101 100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 57
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; people, pressure, that, and, obsessed, with, success, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words obsessed, people, leaving, coming are repeated.
The author used the same word living 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 success, maintain are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word maintain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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