This is an analysis of the poem Disbelief In Yourself Is Indispensable that begins with:
While you're alive it's shameful to worm your way into
the Calendar of Saints....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXd ebbafgbhi dfbh gfjf bbeX befk effd kjic dbfkidXbbc kXlb dXXl X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010011100 010001 1010100110 0111010110101 11110001010 101010010100 101000100100 0101001 1100101010101 11110001 1110010001 1100111 101001100101 010001111000001 10100010101 01010111 1010011010 111111010111101 101000110010 101010100011 1010100101111 1110101 0010100001000100 010100100 1001000100100 01101001 001010010101101 001101101101 010101101 0101110010 10100001000010 10101000110 101011011 1010111 010100001010 010111001 1011011000101 01010110101000100 1001001 110101 101100 10101010 11111101 11000111 110101100 001010001 10111001010 1000100100 10011011001100 011010101101001 1010110100001 011100100 1001110 110010010 101111 001001001 010110001001101111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same words indispensable, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase indispensable connects the lines.
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