This is an analysis of the poem Break O’ Day that begins with:

You love me, you say, and I think you do,
But I know so many who don’t,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcDcece bfbfbdbD dadaXebe cececdcdXcbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,8,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111111 11111011 1111110101 111101111 1110111101 1111101 1111100101 0010111 1110101101 0101011 1110110101 1111111 1111110111 1100111 1111111101 1111101 1111110111 1111101 1111010111 0010111 11100101111 11100111 10101111101 00100111 11101111001 00110101 11101100101 1110101 111101111 11100101 1110110111 10110111 111110111 00010111 1111100101 0011111 1110101101 0101011 1111100101 11100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you, there are repeated.

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  • summary of Break O’ Day;
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