This is an analysis of the poem Living With Regrets that begins with:
Living with regrets to select this,
As the only way life one should live....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfe ebXcgahcg eX hai X j gjX h XhhX jfhiXgd jhejX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,2,3,1,1,3,1,4,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010010 101011111 00100001010 1011111101 0011010 1101001 111101001010 011100101010 1000110010 001001111111 01001011010 11101010111 01001100100101 011010000111 101001001 1100101101 1001010111010001 101110111 101011100111 111 00100010 0110111100111 110101111 1111111 11011110 10110111001 11101011 110111 10110 11011101001 11101001 11101011 111101010111 110 01110001 00110101011 11 1110001011011 111000101101011 111 1001 1001010 11110011 101000011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word living at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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