This is an analysis of the poem On Living that begins with:
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Living is no laughing matter:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a BcdefBgaXdghdfeeghbib X gidjfjegiiaajbkhfgafjjhXa X jhiikacfecllXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,21,1,25,1,14,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10011010 111011000 10101010 1101101100110110 111010111010 10011010 11101000 111101001 110101110111 11001 11001010 011111010 111110 101101101101 1011110 0011011001 111111011000 1101100101011101 11111010 1011111111010 0110111100 1 111100011100 10011111 00110 101001001011 011001011 111101101 11101001010 111100 101011 111101 11011011 100101011101 1111111 1100010010 111100101 010110011110 111010 11010 11101101 010101010 1110011 001011001011 1100110101 11110101011 1111010101 1 01011 01011 110010 01011110 110111 0101111 110101 101110 111101100101 0111 1111011 11010101 10110101 01100110100 111010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; living, your, for, with, and, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, even, we'll, and, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines now is repeated).
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