This is an analysis of the poem Show It To Me that begins with:
Show it to me and with no risk...
That pride that you keep inside....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXAbAbXX AXAXAXAXcXccca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011011 1111101 10011011 111010101 10011011 01001111001 10100 01101 10011011 010011010 10011011 1110111 10011011 111000110110 10011011 111010101100 10 1001111010 1111101010 1111101110 100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; that, to, and, others, show, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word show is repeated.
The author used the same word show at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines others is repeated).
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- summary of Show It To Me;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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