This is an analysis of the poem What Will You Give? that begins with:
What will you give me, if I will wed?
'A golden gown...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXaccXdeeXdffXfbbfaggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110101 1101 01101 1110101 101110111 10111 0101 11111111 101110111 1101 00101 101011110 011101111 1101 0101 10110111 111101111 10101 10101 10101101 101101111 0101 1101 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 693
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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