This is an analysis of the poem The Earth Breath that begins with:

FROM the cool and dark-lipped furrows
Breathes a dim delight ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcacdeaeefefgdhdXidihgggajfjabhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111110 10101 10101010 00101 10001010 100101 10111010 10101 10101010 11100 10101010 10101 101001010 00101 10101110 11001 11101010 100101 11001010 10101 10111010 10100 10111010 10101 11111110 11101 01110010 10001 111111100 00101 11101010 11101 10101010 10101 10111010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 173
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , hail are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Earth Breath;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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