This is an analysis of the poem Be With Those Who Help Your Being that begins with:

Be with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX bXXaX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111110 11001001011 111011 11100111010 010110011010 011101 1111001 100101011 1011111101 1110011111 1101 11111000111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; you is repeated.

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