This is an analysis of the poem Your Duality Leaves Me Breathless that begins with:

Your ugliness to creep,
From under your kept beauty......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcbXb cXXcdec abdbbeed XX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,2,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001 0101110 11101 111010001 11101010 101110100 1011001 1101010 1101 00101010010 001010101 111001100 1100110 0111101001 11101110 011100001 10101011110 1111010101 00100111 11011010 101001110 11111001011 1110110101 10110111011 100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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; to, it, i, you are repeated.

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

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

  • summary of Your Duality Leaves Me Breathless;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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