This is an analysis of the poem When It's Given that begins with:
If you want it,
Take it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCAB AABCD XXee AABCD AABCAB XaXAABCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,5,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110 10 11101 1010 10 11001 10110 10 11101 1001 001101 100010 11001 1010100 10001 10110 10 11101 1001 001101 0110 10 11101 1010 10 11001 1110011 110100 10110 10 11101 1001 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of When It's Given;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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