This is an analysis of the poem Higher Fly Your Kite that begins with:
Live your life as if a kite.
And fly it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa Bacc abdeE XDaEFEDXBaEFD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 110 1111111 0111010 10010101011 1 111 11111 1010111 1111010 101111101 110101110111 110111011001 101110101001 1111010111 111 1111010001 101 110111011001 1111010111 10010101011 11111110111010 1111010001 101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, fly, your, kite are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word come at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Higher Fly Your Kite;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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