This is an analysis of the poem Commits To The Giving Of It that begins with:
How can one not love another,
Who commits to the giving of it......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABX CBB cdc XXb ddX CBB ABX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 101001000 101000 101110011 00101 1010101 010001101 0101111 1100001011 1101010101 0011010101 10011010100 1101001100010 1101001010 1011010101001010 101110011 00101 1010101 11111010 101001000 1010001110100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase too connects the lines.
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- summary of Commits To The Giving Of It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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