This is an analysis of the poem Take Me that begins with:
Pretense to strip,
And with it to be bitten......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDCbcECEF gFhIFhF ABCDC gFhIFhF cECEF HJhcgggg HJhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,5,7,5,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 1000010 10111 0111010 0010001 1 1010101 101011001 001000100101 0110001 010000001101 1 1111101 10 110110101 1111101 10 11111101 0101 1000010 10111 0111010 0010001 1 1111101 10 110110101 1111101 10 11111101 1010101 101011001 001000100101 0110001 010000001101 1110 111001 111111110 111110101 111111 101 11110111 1 1110 111001 11111010 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 47
- 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; to, take, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word take is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Here And In My Heart
- Analysis of Hold That And It Against Me
- Analysis of People Break Hearts
