This is an analysis of the poem To Reciprocate...Without The Need Of Words that begins with:
Sometimes I fail to respond,
To a request that has been made....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCdeXea aXaX AABC eefXcedefa Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,4,10,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001 00011101 10010100 0101001 110111 110101 0110010 101001 10101 11111001 10010100 111101 10011101 0111001 00011101 10010100 0101001 11110111101 0010111101 11001101000 1110001111 001011 1111 11011011 100101 010101 1111 1111101 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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