This is an analysis of the poem Flying Inside Your Own Body that begins with:
Your lungs fill & spread themselves,
wings of pink blood, and your bones...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXccdXXebedee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1011111 100110110 1110111001 1110111 100111100 0111111 1010011 11011111010 100101 010011110 101100101 011101110 0101101101 110111011 01101010111 111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Flying Inside Your Own Body;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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