This is an analysis of the poem And You Say I Am Not The Giving Kind that begins with:
I offend you?
Good....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcdXdadaa efXacadgBaH AbbdXbg BaHgfbeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 0 11 11101110 1010001 11101001101 0011000100 01110101 111101010 110101101 11 11110100011010010 1101110 11100110 1 1111001101 101011110 0010 1 1111110101 1 0101101011 1011 0 1111101010 11001111111 01111110111 11001000010 1111001110010 1111110101 1 0101101011 1 111001101 1 0100100 1111110001110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase to connects the lines.
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- summary of And You Say I Am Not The Giving Kind;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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