This is an analysis of the poem Bread And Music that begins with:
Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb Xccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111110 1111011111 111101110100 1111110001 11110101010 1111110101 1111010110 1111010011 10101111010 1100111011 10111001011 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, your, this, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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