This is an analysis of the poem Sausage that begins with:
You may brag about your breakfast foods you eat at break of day,
Your crisp, delightful shavings and your stack of last year's hay,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccffddccccXXccaaddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011101111101 11010101110111 11010111110101 110101111100101 11010101110011 01011101110101 11010101010111 01011100111111 111001011100001 11011001110101 11110101111101 111010101110101 111101101110101 01010111010101 11011101011101 101010101111101 101011101010101 101010101111101 101010100010101 101010101010111 101010101010100 111010111010101 111010101111001 10101110010101 111111101110111 01010101011101 111110110010101 101011101111101 111011100011101 101010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1832
- Average number of words per stanza: 352
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; your, of, my, and, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, when are repeated.
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- summary of Sausage;
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