This is an analysis of the poem Give Me Something Other Than What Is Preached that begins with:
Give me liberty...
Or something else I can value....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc defbe eeXcc Xcg cheIdIjd bbhfjbXX jIdjc XgXjjj ejeXc aXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,3,8,8,5,6,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100 11011110 010010110 101001111001 110010 110011111 110111010 010100011 0010100 1111100 01101 1101100 111111 0111001101 1110011 100010 11101 1110101101 101011001 100101 111010 1101110011 111010 1010010 11111010 11111110101 1101 1111 0010101 100101010 111110001 0111 111 1 111010 101010101 1111110111 10010100010101 110110110000 10011100101 100010 011001011 101001010010 111010001011 11011 0100111100010 1000100000101 111010101100 10101 1011001010100 1110100 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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, with, those are repeated.
The author used the same word give at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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