This is an analysis of the poem Regard It As An Obligation that begins with:
One should live each day,
Grateful to be cautiously observant....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcX ddef ghegiiX habaXagcfbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,7,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 1000100010 110111 01001011010 101010100 010 101110010 100010011010 010 1101110011 1101010100 1101110010 111011 11011100111 111 00111001 0101100 1111 1100001 10 1101101001 111001 1111001100 10101000111 011101 010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words do, you are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase do connects the lines.
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- summary of Regard It As An Obligation;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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