This is an analysis of the poem We Are Transmitters that begins with:
As we live, we are transmitters of life.
And when we fail to transmit life, life fails to flow through us.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bc Xdb eceXX XadXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101001 11110011110111 1010010001000110 10100110 10111110110011 11111000101010010 111001101 10000010101101010101 0110001000010 0001 100010011100000 10001 1101010101 0101011 110101110 0101100101111100101111 0110011001011 100010001000110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, of, life, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words content, it are repeated.
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