This is an analysis of the poem Social Event that begins with:
I do not take without giving.
Nor do I receive without gratitude! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaaXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 1110101101 1100001 111101101 111110 11110010 0101111 101001010 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.
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