This is an analysis of the poem Endurance that begins with:
HE bent above: so still her breath
What air she breathed he could not say, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccddXbeebffbbbgghhiiddiijjeejkkjkeekbffbhhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11111111 10010111 110100101 01110101 11010101 010010001 11010111 01110100 11011111 11010011 11110011 11000101 11001100 01010101 10010101 11110101 10111111 10111101 11011111 11110111 11011110 010100101 1101001000 11010101 01010101 11010101 01011101 010000101 10010101 11010011 01110011 11000101 11000100 010010111 10010101 11110101 11011101 111100001 11010101 01010101 010010111 10011100 11110101 01000100 11110101 01010101 00010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1747
- Average number of words per stanza: 308
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; it, , and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, he are repeated.
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- summary of Endurance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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