This is an analysis of the poem My Life Has Become What It Is that begins with:
It 'use' to matter to me,
The days of the week....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXaBA XXccXXaBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001 01001 110101101 11001111101 1111011100 1100100011 111111 11101100 11010 110111 110101010 1010100 1001101111 01100110 101001100 10101100100 11101100 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, or are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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