This is an analysis of the poem When Your Heart Is Breaking that begins with:
When troubles are piled about your feet,
When shadows are falling across your way, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc dc d e fe fe Xe d b gb gd dd d e X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111 1111100111 111011111 01101101111 0110111101 01101111010 11111110111 01101111010 11011011001 111001010010 1010110101 1100101010 011100101 1101001100 111111111 1101101010 0110101101 0111001110 1110110101 11001110010 100100101 1101101110 1111100101 1111101010 111101111 1111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 74
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, your, and, it, hard, to, 's, his, many are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, it, his, we are repeated.
The author used the same words it, and, his, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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