This is an analysis of the poem The Cookie Jar that begins with:
You can rig up a house with all manner of things,
The prayer rugs of sultans and princes and kings;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccddbb eeXXbff aaggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101011001 01101011011 111101011001 11101011001 111011001001 011001111101 111011101101 01111011101 01011111111 11001111011 11001011111 101001011101 101001011111 101001001111 101001001010 101101111 101 11101101011 11011011101 101001001110 01111111011 011111001011 011111001111 101011001011 11001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; let, be, and, it, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, it are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word jar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Cookie Jar;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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