This is an analysis of the poem Breaking It Gently that begins with:
ALL WAS UP with Richard Tanner—
‘Wait-a-Bit’ we called him. Dead?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eXeaafaf agaghihi bibijiji kfkfXlXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1011111 101001010 1010101 10111011 1011001 10011011 1010111 10101110 1110111 11101110 10010100 10101010 1110101 10111010 1110101 00101010 1010111 10011010 1110101 11101110 1010101 11111010 1111101 10110010 0110111 10101010 1011111 10101010 1010101 11100010 1110101 11011110 1011111 10100110 1101111 10111000 1110111 11100010 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; ye is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word scuse is repeated.
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