This is an analysis of the poem Canning Time that begins with:
There's a wondrous smell of spices
In the kitchen, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaXccXXdd XXXXXXXXXdd cXXXbcceedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 0010 1100 11110010 11101010 10101110 10101010 10101110 00101010 0010101 1110111 10011010 1100 1110 11111110 10110110 00101110 00101110 10111010 11100010 1110101 1010101 10101010 1010 1010 00101110 11101110 00101010 00101110 11101010 11101110 0010101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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