This is an analysis of the poem Giving And Taking that begins with:
Who gives and hides the giving hand,
Nor counts on favor, fame, or praise,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba caac deed fbXX XffX gccg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11110111 11010111 01000111 110111010 01011101 100110111 011111110 01011101 01111111 110011011 01000101 11010101 11110100 11110100 11010111 11010111 110101001 010001001 01011000 11111111 010100010 111101110 01110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; as, to are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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