This is an analysis of the poem My Fruit-Like Breasts Are Your Possessions, My Love that begins with:

My fruit-like breasts are your possessions, my love
How can they be offered to anyone else?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABXAB ccAB XXAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11111101011 11101001001 1101111011111010 11111101011 11101001001 1100101 0111110101 11111101011 11101001001 11110010101 110111101101010010100 11111101011 11101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

    The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word else at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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