This is an analysis of the poem What Are We Really Living For? that begins with:
What are we really living for?
If we don't seek love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABac aDEFF AGAHAXAIAXAiAd AGAHAXAIAjA afhXd ABAjc aDEFFXAHAHAHAH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,14,11,5,5,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01111 111101 00111010 1101 00100 11101 0001100 1111010111011 11110101 10101 11110101 1111 11110101 001100 11110101 101010 11110101 011101 11110101 111010 11110101 0111 11110101 10101 11110101 1111 11110101 001100 11110101 101010 11110101 11111 11110101 0111 110101011 111101101 0111111100 001 11110101 01111 11110101 001 11010 1110101 00100 11101 0001100 1111010111011 11110101 111110 11110101 111110 11110101 111110 11110101 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, for, let are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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