This is an analysis of the poem As If My Breath Is On Your Neck that begins with:
Take your time to find my mind.
It is where it has always been....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcDEdFGDh bXiiggi hid ABcDE gFGDh Xa dea egbXXhhggdi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,7,3,5,5,2,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 00101110 1 0100 1110010 11110100 001011 1101 10111000100 010 1111111101010 10110111 11 101001101 1101 0101 010100 1000 11 1101011100 1110111 00101110 1 0100 1110010 1111 001011 1101 10111000100 010 11110100101 1101 0100 111010 10101010 1110010 0011111 100101 11011110 011101 0111101 1111 11 10101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of As If My Breath Is On Your Neck;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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