This is an analysis of the poem Offering that begins with:
I offer you my forests and my street-cries
With hands of double-patience under the clock, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXc defgee dadahh dgigaa aXXfgX fjijhh jaffkk gcgcll XXaamam
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101111 01010101001 0101010011 1001010011 01011101010 01010101010 110100100100 01010010101 001001100100 1001010001 010100100011 0101010001001 1101010010 0100100001010 01010100011 0101000110110 1101111111 110101100 11010010100 01011010001 0111010100 001010010001 1101010110111 1010110000 1101010101 01010100001 0101001100 10010100101 01101000110 010101010100 11011010101 010010101101 001010001100 00100110011 0111010101 0101011001 11010100001 0111011101 01010110101 00101010001 01100011101 1101010101 111011110111 0101100001010 11011110101 11010001010 1101101011 101001010010101 101011111001 1101011000 10001101001 110010110101 0111010001 010101000010 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, in, let are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, let 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.
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