This is an analysis of the poem Fragments - Lines 0425 - 0428 that begins with:
Not to be born is the best of all things for those who live on earth,
And not to gaze on the radiance of the keen-burning sun....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001011111111 110110100001101 11110001010110011101 1010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.
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- summary of Fragments - Lines 0425 - 0428;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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