This is an analysis of the poem The Break that begins with:
It was also my violent heart that broke,
falling down the front hall stairs....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb fafg gggf Xhfh ibib jdjd idid kdkd eiei lflf dgdg Xcbc mimi gggg eiei gXgX bnenXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01101100111 1010111 01100101101 1010101011 011111001 0111101010 010011001 101000111010 11101111101 111101011 111110101 111010111 10110101110 01010011111 0100101101 111111110011 11111111111 1111011011 10010100101 1010010110011111 11110111101 101011111 010011101101 0101010101011 01010101 1011010101 110011111 111110111 111111001 11111011 111111111 0100011101 111111011 010101111010 01110011011 1101010011110 011011011011 01011010110 011101001101 100100010010 0101001110 01011110111 0101110100 0010111101011 01101011 11101111 1011110101 110101101 1011100111 11110011001 01010101001 110001000101 11111100 1010110011 11111010001 1111101111 111111101 011011001101 1010111111 1000101111011 1011110101 101010101 101010101 1101110100000 110100101001 001000101011 11100101101 1101111101 0101001101 01011101001 010010000101 0110111011 01011101011 11010000101 1111101001 011011101 01010101001 11001001101 1100100101 0111111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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; like, i, me, and, he, his, in, it, as, my, this, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, in, this are repeated.
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- summary of The Break;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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