This is an analysis of the poem Give To Me Your Cocoa that begins with:
Give to me your cocoa,
Although I prefer the green tea....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAc ABXc AdXdeAXXe adbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 11101011 101110 011100100 101110 11101011 110110011 1111100 101110 1111011 11010111 110101 1 101110 111111 01011110 11010101 101110 010111 11101011010 010010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; your, me 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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