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

CRIED Ciss to the breeze, as under the trees,
She lay at her ease, one day,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede eXeb fgfg dbdb hXhX afbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100111001 1110111 11101101001 0110111 1011110110 11100111 0111100101 1110111 1111111101 111111 1111111001 10110111 1100100101 0100110 0110110001 11100111 1100100111 0011111 1011100101 0010101 1110111001 1100111 10101110001 1100111 1010101001 0100101 1100111101 1000111 1110101001 1100111 0100111001 10100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; her, sang are repeated.

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

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

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