This is an analysis of the poem You Have Not Yet Learned To Survive that begins with:
You have not yet learned to survive.
I've heard you make excuses for it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcd AeedbfdXd A dXXbebc c fbeddb gcgb Aca aXcdec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,1,7,1,6,4,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111001 111101010 111001001101 1010100 111101 11111001 110011110 110101111 111101 01010101 1100111 111111 11110 111100111 11111001 111110 11101111101 11101111110 010101111011 111111110110 0110111100 11111111100 1110011111111 11111 11111001 1111000101 111011001 011001011 111111111011 1111 111 1100 1100 11111001 1011010110 0111101 11111011100001 010110 11110 111111 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; you, i, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, i are repeated.
The author used the same word you 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 alive is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word alive at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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