This is an analysis of the poem Why Do Some Live Without A Giving that begins with:
I've been living in a world,
Many show they do resent......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB ABB CDCDCDCC ABB ABB CDCDCDCC EBEB CDCDCDCC CECEBBBCEB ABBXCEB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,8,3,3,8,4,8,10,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010001 1011101 001001101010111 1010001 1011101 001001101010111 11 11101010 11 11101010 11 11101010 11 11 1010001 1011101 001001101010111 1010001 1011101 001001101010111 11 11101010 11 11101010 11 11101010 11 11 11101010 1010100 11101010 1010100 11 11101010 11 11101010 11 11101010 11 11 11 11101010 11 11101010 1010100 1010100 1010100 11 11101010 1010100 1010001 1011101 001001101010111 11 11101010 1010100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; living, they, and, to, this, seems, benefit are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words i've, oh 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 benefit is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word get at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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