This is an analysis of the poem Give Me Back My Rags #12 that begins with:

Enough chattering violets enough sweet trash
I won't hear anything know anything...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa bcc Xa XdbX eeX X dXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,4,3,1,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011001000111 1111011101 010101 110101 11101 111 0111110 011111 110111 011011011 11111 1111110 10011111 1111001 011001100 11 111100 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
  • Average number of words per stanza: 11
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; enough, without, you, in are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word i'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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