This is an analysis of the poem Give Me Back My Rags that begins with:
Just come to my mind
My thoughts will scratch out your face...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa bc XX cb a dXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 1101111 110011 11011011 11011 1100111 101101 10100011011011 11010011 111100 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 46
- 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; my, your are repeated.
The author used the same word just at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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