This is an analysis of the poem My Job that begins with:
I wonder where's a better job than buying cake and meat,
And chocolate drops and sugar buns for little folks to eat?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee ffaa ggdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101110111 11011101110101 111100101010101 11011100110101 11111111110111 11110101100101 11010111011101 110010101010101 11010111110010 11011101110001 01011111011101 11010101010101 11010101111111 01011101011101 01110101111111 11010111111101 11110111110001 11010111110011 11110111110111 11011101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, you, little, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of My Job;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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