This is an analysis of the poem Offering And Rebuff that begins with:
I could love you
as dry roots love rain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcb XdX E cXdXE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111 11111 1111 110001 1010 01111011 1111 1111 1010 10011 110101 11011 11011 10011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Offering And Rebuff;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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