This is an analysis of the poem Breath that begins with:
When you see them
tell them I am still here,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc dXXe Xcff bXae dbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110 101111 111111101011 1000101 1011101100 0011111 111011101 110100010 110110111111 110111 1100110000111 100100010001001001 1100101011 11011010111 10100101 111100101 110001001100 10101011101 0101110101 110111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, that, breath, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The author used the same word that 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 breath is repeated).
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- summary of Breath;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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