This is an analysis of the poem Light Breeze that begins with:

As regards feeling pain, like a hand cut in battle,
consider the body a robe you wear. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX X X XX a Xa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,2,1,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011011010 0100100111 11111111111111101 100101011010 11111100010101110 1010100101011101010 111001001011110111011111101010110001 01001010011101101100100010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.

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  • summary of Light Breeze;
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