This is an analysis of the poem One's Own Understanding Of Life that begins with:
The most difficult thing one can do,
Is to break away from that which comforts......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 011001111 0010101110 00111101001 111111011 11111010100001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of One's Own Understanding Of Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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