This is an analysis of the poem On A Daily Basis that begins with:
I am often humbled,
By those expressions made...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcca de fghccfiXe jddaak icgc dj abdkfdahc hcce cdacfdcka adbXjbfhb ddX dbaadX cXbdfX XcibXdkddici
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,9,6,4,2,9,4,9,9,3,6,6,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 110101 01011 010010 1110101 11111010 100101011 110101010 0101011011 11100101010011 010100 11001000111 01001110 111010011111 10011011010 1011010100 111110010 110011101 1011011 1 0111001 10101111010001 1111100110110 1101010111100 11100101111100010 0100010111 0100111010 11011110111 111101 11111110011 000100 1 1110110 111 1010010 111001001 0100100 1 11001010 01110111 1011110 10100 1101010111010 101010100101001110 111100001 011100101 11101 111011011 101100010 1000 00101 11010101 101101110110 1 011 1100111 10100010 011001 111010100 11100110 1111010101111 1100101010010 1111001 1111010 101010101010 1101010101 1010100001 11011011101 110010100 1111101010 100110010001101 01010100 1101010010101001 110111 0111111 01110011 01101 00100110111101 101010 110111010 10001100010101 0100111110 01011 010010 1010101010 110111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, there are repeated.
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- summary of On A Daily Basis;
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