This is an analysis of the poem Hymn To Life that begins with:
The hair falling on your forehead
suddenly lifted....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaBcA dEbfXghiBA XcfefXJKbafXbdXcaaXXkiaegeX hjacdEKJdii X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,27,11,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101110 10010 100101101 011100 001 111001 11 1111 011010 010111 10101 011110 111 0111001 011100 111001 001 00101001 101111 111001 1011111010101001 10010011100100 01011111 111111 010 0111 1111 10101100 00100101001 011 011 01111 110101 1010101 10010011100100 10101100 11101111 0010011 1011110101 0101 10111110110 10101001 1010100 11 1111110111 1101101 10110001 11011011 1111 111111 01011111 110101 001010010011010 11010011 111010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 389
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, as, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words suddenly, from, a, neither, as are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word cold at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Hymn To Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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