This is an analysis of the poem She Understands Me that begins with:

it is all blood and breaking,
blood and breaking, the thing...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011110 111001 1100110 000111110 10011011110 11011110101 101101010 10111001001 0110110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines squalling is repeated).

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  • summary of She Understands Me;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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