This is an analysis of the poem What Part Of Life Are You Living that begins with:

What part of life are you living.
What part of life are you living to give? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBAA ABBAA CXABCX ABBAA CXBB CXBB ABBAA CXBBXCdABAAdB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,5,4,4,5,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110 1101111001 1101111001 11011110 11011110 111011110 1101111001 1101111001 11011110 11011110 11010011 11010010 11011110 1101111001 11010011 11010010 111011110 1101111001 1101111001 11011110 11011110 11010011 11010010 1101111001 1101111001 11010011 11010010 1101111001 1101111001 11011110 1101111001 1101111001 11011110 11011110 11010011 11010010 1101111001 1101111001 11010010 11010011 1 11011110 1101111001 11011110 11011110 1 1101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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; what, part, of, life, you, living, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.

    The author used the same word what 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 living is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words living, live at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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