This is an analysis of the poem If It Is There To Be Given I Am Here To Receive that begins with:
Can you give me something more,
Than less than your professed best? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXX XaXa XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111101 1111011 10100001 11101 111 1101110 111101001110 1100101 11001110 11100101 11 01011001010 1110101010101 00010010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you is repeated.
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- summary of If It Is There To Be Given I Am Here To Receive;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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