This is an analysis of the poem Selectively Limited that begins with:
When I give...
It is from within me, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC DEC ffgf ABC DEC hei XebgXheceig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,3,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 000011 101 111 101111 111111 110101101 1111 10101 111 111 000011 101 111 101111 111111 01010100 1111101 11110101 111001101101 00100010 0111 10101101101 11101010011 10101011 1110000101 111101 111011 100100100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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- summary of Selectively Limited;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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