This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Promise Me that begins with:
Don't promise me you'll give it.
Just give it and see me overwhelmed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBBACA AaAda Bada Beee AFXbGDH aBBACAe AFabGDH aecEcEcIIIIIi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,4,7,7,7,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 110111101 101 11101110 11011011 010101 11101010 1111101 11101010 110111 1011 111101 111011 10101011 1001 111101 101110 111011 111101 11101010 0111111 11 111010 1110101 1010 1011110 11101010 110111101 101 11101110 11011011 010101 1000111 11101010 0111111 1 1111010 1110101 1010 1011110 1 101 11110111 1101 10011101 1101 11111101 11 11110101 11 11110101 11 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, give, it, you, and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words don't, my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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