This is an analysis of the poem Some Would Have No Life To Live that begins with:
If you live in an atmosphere,
That has condoned conflict, violence and chaos....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCBC XdcbbXXb DaXXBaCcE D ABCCBC D XXBaCcE D XXBaCcE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,9,1,6,1,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101101 110110100110 1010001 1011000100001 11100 100000101 101111010 10110 0100 000100101 11101011011 0101010 110101001 11111001 1101101010110100 1010100111 011001010000 1110001100 1001001100 1 10000 01 1111101 1101101010110100 01101101 110110100110 1010001 1011000100001 11100 100000101 1101101010110100 011001010000 1110001100 1001001100 1 10000 01 1111101 1101101010110100 011001010000 1110001100 1001001100 1 10000 01 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word racism at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Some Would Have No Life To Live;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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