This is an analysis of the poem Give Me Your Flavored Love that begins with:
If you give it I will take it.
Your flavored love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaa ABAA CADC BDBEA BDBEA CADC ABAA bbDBEA BABFgBABXgBeBFcBgfBfcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,5,4,4,6,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101010 1101 101101010 1101 101110 1101 11111010 011001 1110010 111101 010101 101010 111101 011101 111101 01111 111 111101 011101 111101 01111 111 1110010 111101 010101 101010 101110 1101 11111010 011001 1111101 110100 011101 111101 01111 111 111101 10111101 111101 0101111 1 111101 10111101 111101 01011101 1 111101 10111001 111101 0101111 1 111101 010111 101 111101 0101100111 1 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; it, me, your, love 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.
The poet repeated the same word feet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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