This is an analysis of the poem I Give To You What You Give To Me that begins with:
I give to you what you give to me.
Whether in the giving it had been space, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXXX Acbdc AXXcaXad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111101 1000100101 1100 1110011010101 100111000 110111101 110100010101 11110 110011110 11111010111010 110111101 01101110110 11 010001 1011 111010100011001 11111101 100011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, give, sometimes are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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