This is an analysis of the poem She Leaps that begins with:
She leaps into the alien heart
of the passerby, the drunk,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc deXcXXaXX XXde XX ffb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,4,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001001 0010001 01111001 10101 10101 1101 111100100110 0111 1111101110 1111101010 1111101 1101 1101110 1110 1101 11110101 1100 1110010 11101 11101 1 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, to, 'can, you, tell, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'can, or, she are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of She Leaps;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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