This is an analysis of the poem The Dinner-Party that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaabcadad e dXXfaeegXf edaXdbhdc i gjbgXXk h dcdkgclf hXigcldeddlbacfj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,10,9,1,7,1,8,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1111 0111010001 10101110101 111101 011100 010101010 10110010 1011110 00101 1 01000011110 11001001 111111100 11101110 111110 01111011 10000111011011 11101001001010 11010111 10 101 1101110111 1001101 110101 001000100010 10111010 110011 01010010 01001001 10 11001001101 11001010 11001 110101001 10101010010 110010011100 01001 1 11111 1101111100 1111010 011001 1011001011 11101010010 1111111 11101000101 01001 01111110 0101110101 110111010 01010101 111101010 110 111101 0011 01001011 110001101 01101 111001 1101010 110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 67
- 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; and, smoke are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, one are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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