This is an analysis of the poem Relax that begins with:
Do you recall that happy bike
With bundles on our backs?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcb dcdcdbdb cecefbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 010111 11010011 010001 01010001 011101 10010101 01 10010101 011111 1010001 001111 01000111 1100101 10010111 0101 11101101 110111 11111001 110111 01111101 110011 1100001 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, relax are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word relax at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Relax;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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