This is an analysis of the poem Any Lifetime that begins with:
Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010110010 01010011011 0101011010 01011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Any Lifetime;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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