This is an analysis of the poem You Can Have It that begins with:

My brother comes home from work
and climbs the stairs to our room....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXXbdXdeXdcefgXdahdfhgcgeXcccecccXddegedf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101 1101011 1110111011 111111011 01110010 1001010100 101001101 11011100111 10001011010 11011001111 111011111 1111100101 11010111011 1001111101 100110111 1111111010 111011111 0101001111 110010101010 00101111101 01111101010 110111110 0111001 11111101010 01001000110 10111011010100 01011110011 1110111010 11111111 111101101110 100100101 10010010100 010101101 010101110 1000101111 01010011 111111111 11110001 0010111101 0011100101 11111101 11000110101 1111011101 1010111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1788
  • Average number of words per stanza: 342
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, and, that, give are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of You Can Have It;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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