This is an analysis of the poem Give Me Your Lips that begins with:

Give me your lips:
Like to some scarlet fruit of Paradise...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AabccabddcdbAeXaccacee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 1011010101 11010101 110111 1101010 10001110101 11010111 1101010 11000101110 01010101010 010 11010010101 1111 1111110111 111100 11100010101 111010101 1101110101 110110101 111101 11010101011 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 731
  • Average number of words per stanza: 139
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, wine, fire, of, nor are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Give Me Your Lips;
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  • history of its creation;
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