This is an analysis of the poem A Child's Guide To Etiquette that begins with:
Never put your personal spoon in the common jelly bowl.
Spread your napkin upon your lap. Do not grasp....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcX daebfaXb Xgehfca ffXgehef XegiceiaXfdgcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,7,8,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110010010101 11100111111 111111100100101010 111 011101011101010 111110000 01111011101010111 010 111010100101111010 01110010101001010101 01 1101111001001001011001 00101101001 011011011010010001111 100111100100111010 1010 11101010101110101 010101111011011111 010110010111 011100110110111010 011100010111 1001011010101011111 11 111111101010110010 1101101011100101110 10101 111101110011101010 1 111011 010100101011110010 000101111100100 10 01001000100101 1010101101101010 01110101111110000 10 011101101101101 011111101111001001 0100101 1110111111001010 01001001010 01001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, he, not, hat, and, she, his, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words away, she, the are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase jane connects the lines.
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- summary of A Child's Guide To Etiquette;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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