This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Lxx: Take Back Your Coins that begins with:

Take back your coins, King's Councillor. I am of those women you
sent to the forest shrine to decoy the young ascetic who had never...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefgddbbcdgheXXiXfgjdkeXfjdddXjakjhiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111001101101 100101001010101110 1010110110 101110101011010 01010110101010 100101101101010 11111111101111 000100011011011101 1101100101001001 10 1011011001111 100101001011110 111001111001010 011111010010010 10110100101001101 010100111000110 10111011110100 1010100110101101 100110111000111 100111000 1110010110100010 110101101011101 011011111111000 11111011100110 1111011110101111 0110101111100100 010111010000100 111111100010 10101101111101 100101110101010 01 01011111101 1101110111101 101011010 0111011111110010 10100111101111001 111101011111111 1110111010110111 01010101101011111 01110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2385
  • Average number of words per stanza: 438
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his, we, and, their, i, my, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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