This is an analysis of the poem No One That Is Living Has A Quality Owed that begins with:
No one that is living,
Has a quality owed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABABCBDDE AfAFAff ABABABCBDDE AFAFAFDGFF AFAFAFDGFFXABABABCBf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,11,10,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 101001 111010 101001 111010 101001 0101 1101 01010 0101 0101101 11010 00111 11010 10100 11010 101 101 111010 101001 111010 101001 111010 101001 0101 1101 01010 0101 0101101 11010 001101 11010 10100 11010 10111 110100 0010101 1011 1101 11010 001101 11010 10100 11010 10111 110100 0010101 1011 1101 111010 101001 111010 101001 111010 101001 0101 1101 001110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word fit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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