This is an analysis of the poem Breathe In The Sunlight that begins with:

Breathe in the sunlight, live with the sunlight -
And with the sun you will glisten too!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ottava rima
  • Metre: 1001110011 100110101 01001001011 011100110 1001010010 100100111 0101001010 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; sunlight, heaven, with are repeated.

    The author used the same word breathe at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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