This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Ingredient that begins with:
Almost yesterday, those gentle ladies stole
to their baths in Atlantic Cuty, for the lost ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbXabaab babbbbbbabXabbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101110101 011001010101 100110011 10001011111 1100101100110 10101011001 10001101011 10100111111 0101110101 1101111111 1110110111 1111010101 111101011 00100101001 100011010101 0001010111 1111100101 10011111111 1100111011001 010111011111 010101011111 011111110101 01001011101101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word almost at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lost is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word lost at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Lost Ingredient;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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