This is an analysis of the poem This Life Is All Chequer'D With Pleasures And Woes that begins with:
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes,
That chase one another like waves of the deep -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdada XdXdceceadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010110001011 11101011001 11011011001 01011111011 11011111001 1010100101101 111101101001 011001011001 11101001011 01101011101 01011011001 101101011011 11011001001 11101101101 11001101111 1010011010101 110111011110 01011110001 1100101010110 11111111011 11101011001 110001011011 11111111101 001001101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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