This is an analysis of the poem Buying The Whore that begins with:
You are the roast beef I have purchased
and I stuff you with my very own onion....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cX ca bX XaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111110 11110110110 110111101010 1111011011101 11011111010 11100101011 110111110011 10010101110 1111101011 111000111011 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, i are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Buying The Whore;
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