This is an analysis of the poem At This Moment that begins with:
I'm very pleased to be a body. Can there be someone without a body?
As you hold mine I feel firmly assured that bodies are the right thing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb XcXXXXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101000101101101010 11111110011101011 1111100100100111110 010000110101100001010 11101011111101001 010011100111011101 1101101101011001001 1111111011100111 100101010011101101 0101111111111111 1011011111001010 1011101101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 68 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; body, i, it, you, to are repeated.
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- summary of At This Moment;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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