This is an analysis of the poem Yves Tanguy that begins with:
The worlds are breaking in my head
Blown by the brainless wind...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabcX ccXdc Abaca AbXXX aadXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110011 110101 11001 100111 101001 0101001 01001010 010010010 01101110 100101001 01110011 11011001 010010101 10101100100 1101011 01110011 01010111 111101001 0110110 1001001 10101 110011 110110010 111110010 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, whose are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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