This is an analysis of the poem This Life. that begins with:
This life that glides away
As in a night and day —...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbcdedfefaagghaihhgXddXfXadijjdhdhhiXaeefeefdkdddeeddkkgga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 61,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 100111 0101110111 0101010101 1001001001 101 01000101 11111101 1000101101 10010100101 1011100101 100011 111100101001 10011001 0011110101 11010111 01010101 0111011111 11000100 010111 01111100 111101001 110101100 1111010101 1010101 1101011000 011111 01011000 01011001 1001100101 1010110100 01010111 1011 11001111 01000111 1101010101 100101 111101 0100000100 0101010100 01010100 010101 010101 0111000101 0111 1011 10001000111 01010101 01010111 0101 01010111 100011 01100001 0101001 100110101 0101111101 11110101 1001 0001011111 111111 0011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1965
- Average number of words per stanza: 366
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; night, so, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whate'er is repeated.
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- summary of This Life.;
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