This is an analysis of the poem The Gift that begins with:
I want to give you something, my child, for we are drifting in the
stream of the world....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabXbXbXacXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1101110111111000 1001 11001001111010 1111110101111111 011 1011111111011 1111111110101 1111111111010 11111111 101110010110101 11101001111111 110 010110011011 1001010110101100 001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 731
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, your, and, you, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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- summary of The Gift;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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