This is an analysis of the poem The Meaning Of Existence that begins with:
Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabca Xdcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 10100010 110101 11011010 1011010101 10010010 100111 11100010 11010010 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Meaning Of Existence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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