This is an analysis of the poem In Broken Images that begins with:

He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa aa bb cc aa aa XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011001100 11110010100 101110001100 1011010110100 1001001011100 01011001101100 010110010101 100110011001 10111110010 10111101110 1010111001100 10101110110100 1001010001010 1001101001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; images, relevance, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.

    The author used the same word he 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 images, relevance, fact, senses are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word images at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of In Broken Images;
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