This is an analysis of the poem In A Breath that begins with:
To the Williamson Brothers
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xaba XXcaca dXeeXXXe Xbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,6,8,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010010 11111010100101 1110111010 101001010110 1011001111 0101111001001 001010101011 1011001001000 111011101110 1100101100010 01011000 010101010011 10110100101 001101111010 1011000110 10010101101 1101001111110 1010010010011 10100010 11001001011001 0011010101001 010110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of, large, cool are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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