This is an analysis of the poem To Rich Givers that begins with:
WHAT you give me, I cheerfully accept,
A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money--these, as I... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110001 0101000111001010111 1010110 0100101101110101 1110010111101011 0 111111110110011110 11010110111001001010 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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, to, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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