This is an analysis of the poem They May Rail At This Life that begins with:
They may rail at this life -- from the hour I began it
I found it a life full of kindness and bliss; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcD ededfdfD XgXghdhd hihiidid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100101010 11001101011 1011111110010 11011110100 11101111111 101101001011 111110011001 101001011111 010011110110 11111001011 1011110010010 111011100011 1111011010001 111001101010 111110011001 101001011111 0110011110010 11111011101 1110011110110 11011011011 11101011101 011101001011 111011110011 101001011111 1111011010010 11111101001 0110010111110 101111011111 11101111001 001001001011 00110101001 111011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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