This is an analysis of the poem While You Skate that begins with:
You can't break my heart and run,
Believing that will stimulate......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBBCCX DDcCX XeX eeeeXCCX FGHC fGHC ABBBDD CCX FGgFGXABBBcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,3,8,4,4,6,3,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 01010101 111000100 111 11 11 11111111 11110101 011110101011 111 11 11111111 11111010 010011110 110010 0110 10 10 111111110 1111010001 11 11 11111111 111111 1101011111 01011 1111 1111111 1101011111 01011 1111 1111111 01010101 111000100 111 11110101 011110101011 11 11 11111111 111111 1101011111 11 111111 1101011111 1111111 01010101 111000100 111 111111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 51
- 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; no, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, i've are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines no is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words nooo, screw at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase no connects the lines.
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- summary of While You Skate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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