This is an analysis of the poem This Has Been Their Lives that begins with:

Choosing to accept things as they are in isolation...
Enhances one's desperation, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabc cXX dedfffeggc fhhcbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,10,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001111101010 01011010 0101010010 111001101 001100100101 101100 1101010100 1000101 010111001 0100100001 11101 011000101 0010011010010 111001000100101 10101001010 0011010 110101 111010101 11111 01010001 10101101 111011010 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of This Has Been Their Lives;
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