This is an analysis of the poem All I Was Doing Was Breathing that begins with:
Something has reached out and taken in the beams of my eyes.
There is a longing, it is for his body, for every hair of that dark body....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110001011 100100010101100101110 1111011010101001111 011100010111000110 110011101110110110011 1111111111111111 1011111110110110101 101010100111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 575
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, they, i are repeated.
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- summary of All I Was Doing Was Breathing;
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- idea of the verse;
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