This is an analysis of the poem Hunger that begins with:
I only find within my bones, A taste for eating earth and stones.
When I feed, I feed on air, Rocks and coals and iron ore. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdead aXaacX d DFGHijgjhcdcXebXafaDFGH a iiaciXhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,1,23,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011101110111 11111111111101 11011010101 1011101101 1010101 01010101 10100011110001 0101010110110 0010111101011 10001011101110 0101000111010 11111110100100 1110101110010 1001101100110010110101111010100110010111111110111111 00010 10100 00101 001001 110101 110010 01001 101110 111101 001001 1001001 111111 110101100 10110 00101 010011 11010 01110 111010 00010 10100 00101 001001 1010100101111010011101001000101001010001010100101010001010101011101111100101110100101111011101100001001010111101110010010110111110010110101001010001001011110101111101011101011100101110101111011010001011101001101111111100101011111010111011110010010010010010100101101101001010100110111011111000010110100110010010111011011010011111001111110100110010110100100010100011111101100010101000100010 110110100101 110100010001011 001001111010111 11010110111101 111111111010010 11011011010101000111 1101101101001111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, feed, and, as, let, me, of, to, my, that, in, at, again, had, it, would, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, the, o are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Hunger;
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