This is an analysis of the poem After Lunch that begins with:
And after noon the well-dressed creatures come
To sniff among the dead ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XbcXabc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011101 010101 1111 1101011101 0101010001 110100011 1101 111101 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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 word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of After Lunch;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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