This is an analysis of the poem Life Is Bitter that begins with:
Life is bitter. All the faces of the years,
Young and old, are gray with travail and with tears.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaaBXaabaaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010000 11111001101 111010101001 001010101010 101010101010 111 10111010100 100111010101 11101110111 001110101010 111010101010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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