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

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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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  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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