This is an analysis of the poem Who's Gonna Know Their Life Is... that begins with:
Who's gonna know their life is...
Choices made to live it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbc Addee bACACAAXF bACACAAXFcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,9,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 101010 111101 001010111 1101110 1111 1 10101010 10101 1 1101110 1011011 1101110 1111100 11101110 1000111 110110100 01111 1 1101110 1011011 11101110 1111100 11101110 1000111 110110100 01111 011101010 10100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word who's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Who's Gonna Know Their Life Is...;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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