This is an analysis of the poem The Bean Eaters that begins with:
They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.
Dinner is a casual affair....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba bcdc XXXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001101 100010001 1101011101 111 111100 111111 11110111 110101 10100 0100010110 11110010110111 01011011111 011110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase remembering connects the lines.
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- summary of The Bean Eaters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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