This is an analysis of the poem Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was that begins with:
Alas! this is not what I thought life was.
I knew that there were crimes and evil men,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XabababXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100111111 1111011101 10011101101 01110010101 0111111001 0101011 1101110101 0110011111 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i is repeated.
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