This is an analysis of the poem Give Me A Single Day that begins with:
GIVE me a single day, I ask no more
From dawn to dusk, ah, that is time enough...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdCD bebefdfD ghghedeD ididffff djdjcdCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111 0101110101 0101111101 1011010101 0101010111 0101010111 1111010001 110101 1101010111 1101011111 1111011101 1110010100 1101110101 1011011111 1111010001 110101 11010110111 1111101011 1101110101 11010011001 11110101010 1111010111 1111010111 110101 1111000101 0101110111 1100011101 0101011011 1111010101 1001110101 0111110101 100111 1111010101 1101010111 1101111111 01010111111 1001111111 1011001101 1111010001 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, give are repeated.
The author used the same word give at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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