This is an analysis of the poem I Want A Mate. A Companion. A Lover that begins with:
Give me life with your love.
Not money thrown to me to impress....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb Xcdd aXa bbdb edbXbce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 110101001 0110101101 111 1111 01110101 0111110101 111100100 011100101 10110100 111101001001 0110101001 0101001 11011 1101100100 0011111101 01010001001110 1101 0010 010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a 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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