This is an analysis of the poem You Have Not Yet Learned How To Live that begins with:
Look not do I,
For your attention....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab cddbd EFBEDG HIDXCAD gdgadaX HIDXCAD Xdch EFBEDGX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,7,7,7,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 11010 110011 101110001 11110101 00111010001 0110110 111111101 11111101 1101110 0111 01101 1101110 10111001 1011101 10100100001 01010 1101000 10100100011000 001110010 001001 111011 1111 11011111 1101111101 00100101 1111101 11110001001 01111110100111 10100100001 01010 1101000 10100100011000 001110010 001001 111011 110101010 10111101 111000010 111000110100 1101110 0111 01101 1101110 10111001 1011101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, to, see are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase that connects the lines.
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