This is an analysis of the poem What Can I Do To Prove You Love Me? that begins with:
I did not ask to love you.
In fact......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcdXbXdX XbbXXXXebcbae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011 01 11101011100 0111010111 11 11010001 010 1111 1110100100 111110101001 101011 1111110111 01110 11101111 1111 1110 1111101011 101000111 101110110 1010111 111011111 111111101 111101 111101101 1111 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i 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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- summary of What Can I Do To Prove You Love Me?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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