This is an analysis of the poem Gifts that begins with:
Give a man a horse he can ride,
Give a man a boat he can sail; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xaca Xdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 10101111 101110111 111111 10101111 10101111 1010100101 1010101 10101111 1111111 1010100101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word give is repeated.
The author used the same word give at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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