This is an analysis of the poem Give Me Your Life that begins with:
Give me your life...
To like to love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDABEfgEbEfhh ABGGCDXEXEXEgXAgFgFg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 0101 11010001 1000011 1111 0101 1101111 010001 1 101111 010001 1101111 010001 01010100 0101010 1111 0101 111101 111101 11010001 1000011 1 101111 010101010 101111 010101010 101111 01010001 1111 11101 11110 1 11110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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, of, like, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word just is repeated.
The author used the same word give 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 loved is repeated).
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- summary of Give Me Your Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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