This is an analysis of the poem A Change Of Menu that begins with:
Now the new chum loaded his three-nought-three,
It's a small-bore gun, but his hopes were big. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbb cdcdee fXfXdd egegbb ehehXX ijXjXX bibiXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011100111 0011110101 10110010110011 101101001010 1110100111 011101101 100100101 101111011 00110110101 110100101 1010111101 11100110101 101111111 10101001101 10111110111 011100101 011110111 011110101 1011101101 0010101101 111011011 1010100101 1110111101 1110110101 011101111 011110111 111100101 111101111 1011011100101 11101101010 011100101 110110111 110010101 011100101 1011100101 101101101010 1011110101 0011100111 1110101101 1101101101 110111100 1101110011100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and, him, to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Change Of Menu;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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