This is an analysis of the poem The Nutcrackers And The Sugar-Tongs that begins with:
The Nutcrackers sate by a plate on the table,
The Sugar-tongs sate by a plate at his side;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd X bebeadXX X fXfghihX X ffXfdjjj i Xdkdckck i kXXXlXlg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011011011010 01011101101 1011011111010 10011111101 1111010010110 11011011001 1100111010110 11001101001 1 1111110110010 10101011011 111111110010 11111001101 1110010110010 11011111101 1111111111110 010110100010 1 110111110001 01011101011 010110010000 11101011101 010011010011 01101001001 011111011011 11111001010 1 010011110010 01101011001 0110101100100 01001101001 010010110010 01011101101 011011010110 11001011001 1 010111110100 01101111001 1111110010010 01011101011 110010010110 11001101001 011011010110 11101111101 1 111011111010 11001001001 010111111000 101010111010 111111111010 01011101011 110010111010 11001111011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, they, rode are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Nutcrackers And The Sugar-Tongs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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