This is an analysis of the poem To You I Can Only Give that begins with:
To you I can only give.
What you do with my giving, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101 1110110 00100101 111101 0110101 111011011011 1010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
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