This is an analysis of the poem Who's Living With That Mission? that begins with:
Who here,
Lives to dance and sing? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABACD DD AeAfAgD DD AXAbADE DD AhAhAgf DD ABABACD DDDD ADE DXhdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,7,2,7,2,7,2,7,4,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 10111 11 1010110 111 111101 1100110 1100110 1100110 11 110101 11 01010101 111 111101 1100110 1100110 1100110 11 1011100 11 11101010 111 1010111 01110 1100110 1100110 11 101101 11 1011111 111 11011 11 1100110 1100110 11 10111 11 1010110 111 111101 1100110 1100110 1100110 1100110 1100110 111 1010111 01110 1100110 11001 1010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; who's, living, with, that, mission are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who's is 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mission is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word mission at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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