This is an analysis of the poem Soft And Tenderly that begins with:
Soft and tenderly,
A breeze comes to me......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCDAdc EC XfgbbgcXdg ABCCDAECXfec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,10,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100 01101 1101 11100 10101001 1010 1111 101 10101010 111 01111 1111010 01111 01001 1010101 1011 0100101 111011 0100101 001001101 11100 01101 1101 11100 10101001 1010 10101010 111 10101101 1000010 001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Soft And Tenderly;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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