This is an analysis of the poem Forbidden Fruit that begins with:
Eight days to beer! A sigh sweeps thro' the nation
Sweeps like a gale from 'Frisco to New York.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbXbX cXcXXXbX XdadeaeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111010 1101010011 11010100010 1101001111 11011101010 1101111111 11111101010 1101000101 11011101010 1001000101 11011111110 010100111001 11011111110 1101010101 11110110010 110101001010 101110101010 01111010101 0101111101 1111101001 11010101110 1011110001 10011111010 0111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, beer, it are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Forbidden Fruit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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