This is an analysis of the poem A Pizza the Size of the Sun that begins with:
I'm making a pizza the size of the sun,
a pizza that's sure to weigh more than a ton,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001001001 01011011101 01011001111 01001001001 01011001001 01001010011 01001011001 010011011101 11001001001 11001101001 11000001001 11111011001 01001101001 01101111001 11101111001 11001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; pizza, with, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, with, my are repeated.
The author used the same word i'm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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