This is an analysis of the poem Let The Beasts Their Breath Resign that begins with:
Let the beasts their breath resign,
Strangers to the life divine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacC ddXeffcC cXffeecCXbbffeecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1000101 1111101 1110101 1110101 1110101 1010101 1011101 11111010 11001010 10101010 10011001 1010101 1010001 1000101 1011101 1110100 1100100 1110111 1110111 1111111 1110101 1111101 1011101 1110011 1010101 1110101 1110101 1110101 1010101 1011101 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; their, you, whom, who, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases why, you connect the lines.
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