Give Me Back My Rags #4 by Vasko Popa: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Give Me Back My Rags #4 that begins with:

Get out of my walled infinity
Of the star circle round my heart...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xab cXd a dX a ca bXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,1,2,1,2,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 110110100 00110111 011101 1100101011 011011 11011010 111111 11011001 001101011 111111111 1101101 11111 111100 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 48
  • Average number of words per stanza: 11
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, get, out are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, get are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word out at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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