This is an analysis of Gifts by James Thomson.
GIVE a man a horse he can ride,
Give a man a boat he can sail;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xaca Xdcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101111 10101111 101110111 111111 10101111 10101111 1010100101 1010101 10101111 1111111 1010100101 111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and, love
Anaphora
give
