This is an analysis of the poem The Man Who Broke Up The Dinner Party Answers that begins with:

It made me feel small, like a husband,
and I never married, never owned...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa Xa bb XX XX XcXca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 011111010 111010101 0101101010 11001011 00111111 1100110010 111010111 1100101110 011001101 01101001110 111011011100 0100100101 1100101001010 110001100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; worth is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Man Who Broke Up The Dinner Party Answers;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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