This is an analysis of the poem Live that begins with:
If you tell the truth, people get angry,
don't tell the truth anymore, Taslima ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabcdXbe bdbXdcfXa X ceXfebX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,1,7,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110110110 1101101100 0101010100 00101100 10100111101101 101110111 01111010 101 1101 011 10100100101 1011011101 1010110011101 11110101 101011100101 01111010010 111110110011011 110010011010 11011110101110100 11100 111011011011 100110011011101011101 01111110011 1110100111111 0010111011101 11101101010101001 110101100 1
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; you, would, of, and, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, say, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word taslima at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Live;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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