This is an analysis of the poem One Day Unbroken One Awakens To See that begins with:

From sensitive to monster.
Cold and thoughtless....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bcd Xee Xbfd gafda cage Xaaae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,4,5,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100010 1110 01001 1101111 100100 01001010 101100110 11101010 110111 1111101101 11001110 01101101 111010101001 0100100110100100 1011000100 01011101 001010 0110111100101 1110001 10111111 001 1 01011 11100 110110001 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; those is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word done at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of One Day Unbroken One Awakens To See;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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