This is an analysis of the poem Nobody Has Lived Before that begins with:
There's no need to remain idle.
Stifled to idealize a life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACDCE FfeXdFd ABACDCE GHggHfXfXGHff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100110 10001101 11100110 010110101 0100010101 1101110110 010110001 111110101 1111011 11110101 11010101 010100001 111110101 10100010011 11100110 10001101 11100110 010110101 0100010101 1101110110 010110001 111101001 0111000100010 1111 01001 0111000100010 101 01 1101 111101001 0111000100010 101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 get at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Nobody Has Lived Before;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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