This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Xviii: Your Days that begins with:

Your days will be full of cares, if you must give me your heart.
My house by the cross-roads has its doors open and my mind is...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXabb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001010111111 111011101101110 10111 1110010101001111 110111101011111 10100101100101101 1101110101100010 1111101000011111 1111101111100 10110011000111 100100011100011101 101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 683
  • Average number of words per stanza: 138
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, you, your, and are repeated.

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