This is an analysis of the poem And You, Helen that begins with:
And you, Helen, what should I give you?
So many things I would give you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeXXffeebbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111 11011111 11110011 10111101 0111111 110100011 0111011 110101 11010111 11101101 11101111 010100101 110010111 10011101 1010101 1111110 11000101 111110111 1011101 110011111 11110111 101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 730
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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