This is an analysis of the poem If We Are Not Here To Give And Receive that begins with:
If we are not here to give and receive...
Why are we blessed with arms to reach....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXb bcXbde AabfccX cfdfdXfeXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101101 11110101 11010 11101 11110111 0101 01111 0100111 011101 1010111101 0111101101 1001 101111 1111011001 11010001 1101 101101100 11110111 01001100 00111110 111001100 010010010 010001 1100010100 010010 110101001 010 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, we, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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