This is an analysis of the poem One Positively Living that begins with:
Stop!
And compose yourself....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBXcd aBefG EHEDEIDD aBXcEGEDD EHEDEIfG EDDG EGEDEdgXEGEG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,9,8,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10110 011011 1 100 1 10110 011000 1 100010 011110 1100011 011110 110011 011110 00100100 0110101 11010101 1 10110 011011 1 011110 1100010 011110 0110101 11010101 011110 1100011 011110 110011 011110 00100100 111 100010 011110 0110101 11010101 100010 011110 1100010 011110 0110101 011110 1010101 1100010 011110 1100010 011110 1100010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words stop, believe at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words get, living at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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