This is an analysis of the poem I Am Offering This Poem that begins with:
I am offering this poem to you,
since I have nothing else to give....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaca A adefc A gdffdXXeX A bbggXeXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,5,1,9,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001001 11110101 101011 11010101 1101011 011011 111 11101011 1000110101 011100010 000111101 10110110111 111 10100111 010110010 00100101101 10010011 10110101011 011110 1101011010 1111101010 1101011111 111 011101 101100101 10111001 10111 110101111 010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, your, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of I Am Offering This Poem;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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