This is an analysis of the poem Give Me Back My Rags #11 that begins with:
I've wiped your face off my face
Ripped your shadow off my shadow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aX Xa aX a bXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 11111111 100101 111001 1110100 110100101 101011011 101000101001 110111 111100 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 47
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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