This is an analysis of the poem Tender Buttons [chicken] that begins with:
CHICKEN.
Pheasant and chicken, chicken is a peculiar third.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b a b a X aXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1011010000101 10 010101010101010101010101 10 010101011011001100110111 10 11111110100010100010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 46
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; chicken, alas, dirty, third, sticking, stick, in are repeated.
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