This is an analysis of the poem How Long that begins with:
How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about this harmful world?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010101 11011010101 0101011010110 1110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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