This is an analysis of the poem This Life Called Mine that begins with:
This life called mine
Is not under your shadow....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbbAcadbaAXedfdgXXbgXAegCaCbefaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 0110111 1101111 110101 11001100101 0111 0010100 1 11101 11111 111101010 0111 110010 11111001 11101101 1110 101101001 101100111 10 1110100 11 1111001110 0111 11011 01010100 100 0101 100 010000 101011 101011101 1 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; under, not, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines that is repeated).
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- summary of This Life Called Mine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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