This is an analysis of the poem Give Me That Love that begins with:
When you give me your love...
Give me 'that' love, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABAC AAABAC ACACACAC AAABAC DEDF DEDF ACACACAC DEDFXAAABAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,6,4,4,8,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1111 11 111111 10100 110111110 111111 1111 11 111111 10100 110111110 11111 110111010 1111 111110010 11111 110111010 1111 111110010 111111 1111 11 111111 10100 110111110 1111001011 01111010101 11111010100 010101000110010 1111001011 01111010101 11111010100 010101000110010 11111 110111010 1111 111110010 11111 110111010 1111 111110010 1111001011 01111010101 11111010100 010101000110010 111111 1111 11 111111 10100 110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; love, you, give, me, and, be are repeated.
The author used the same words when, do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words yearning, committed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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