This is an analysis of the poem Trapped And Needing Air that begins with:
Slow to wake up!
Too slow, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbcdEDfEGG AeXdX bXfXXfXff bdbffbf EcDff EGGfg EG Ffg EGXFge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,9,7,5,5,2,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 11 001001101 10110101 010110011 100 00001 110001 11111101 111001010 010110101 11111 1011 111111 01000 1011 110100101 11111 1101 11100 10111 01010101 10111111 11001010 11010 1111010001 10111 10101110 11011110 01011010101 1101 011100 010011 00001 01 110001 11111101 0101 111001010 010110101 11111 00101010 1011101 111010 1010101 0101111 11 101 111010 1010101 0101111 111101 110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word slow at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word air at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Trapped And Needing Air;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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