This is an analysis of the poem The Break Away that begins with:

Your daisies have come
on the day of my divorce:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABbcdcbebfghieXgeabXgXg ABXjkaekeeblXmeknXopoop Xgbfhjojbkqikpckekjfhpdrpdjgpooe mqdh ipbgfrjkcsrpitddkgnd eqnonfsidX epelfXnho ddsibukkjdak engnrbomeodennegsk rekdgqgogXnraoibn nccuupfksaajpfnnigckocskk bkcncoinmnbb sdgukfne XgqgenoXimi kOimOtjiddekeeXbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,23,32,4,20,10,9,12,18,17,25,12,8,11,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 1010101 0110011 011010010101 100110100101 10101 1100101101111 1101100010010 1101101110 1001110111010 10010001 01111011111 00111010100 10110 1011 101110100101 111111111010 011 11010 111010010 110101 01001000 01010 11011 1010101 10111101 10011010011 111 0111 11010011 111111 110111 11010101 01100101 011010011 0010 11101001 100111010 1101111101 1110110 11000100 0100100 101011101 100100101 1110010100 01001 01001 0011010 1001111 11111010 101111011 11101001 0100101 010111101 011111101 101011 1101111011 101010001 001001101 0100001010001 101 0101 11110010 111 111101 100101100 111 011101 11101 1001 111101 01001 111101 101 01010001 101001 1100 001101011 110011 0110001 11111011 101001 110010 11101010001 111010101 11010101 101010 1110011 111111101 101000111 1011 111111 11111011 1001 1111 1101010110010010 111101001 11110111011 0001111 10110101 10100010 01 1001010 1111 1010110 100110010 01010001010 0101011010 110111001 1010010100010 110101011 1011111101010 0011111101101 111011 1101 111010101 010111111000 1100 1111110 111011 10011001010100 110111 1010 1101 010101011 101011 10010110 010010 101100010101 101 111001101 01010 0100101 1111110 0101101011010 110110110 110001010 11100100011 11101011111 1011 1111111 11001110 11101111 0001110111 11100110 0111001010 1010101010 11101101011 1111011010 110101111 1110 101 101110 1101 1111010 0001111101 011000101 10101011011 1100011101 11010111011 11000110100 1110111010 101 110101 10001101101 0110 1010010 101011010 10 11011 101000101010 111100101010 01010 101 10010100110 110101 11010111 01011 1011 1111 11011 1000110 01000 101110 11001110010 11111000101 101101 1111101101 0100110 0101001 11 11001100 0101100 1111 101110101010011 11111010101 1110111100010 1111110101 11110010 11110 010101100110 11110110101 111010110 11010010 01001 111 11111 0110101011 101100110 11010 1011010110 10110 11011101 1111101011 110010 100101 11110101 011110 1110001010100 101010010 0100110 0100111010 01011100011 111000100010 101101 1010 11011000100 111001 1010 1011110111010 1001 1010110110 01010111 1100101010001 111011 11101011 011010010 1111 1110 01010011 010111111 1111011111101 11001110011 1011010 1101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 245
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, as, your, own, you, of, gentle are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, next, we, beside, so are repeated.

    The author used the same words your, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines marriage, her, it are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases glass, safe, gentle connect the lines.

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