This is an analysis of the poem My Chinee Cook that begins with:
They who say the bush is dull are not so very far astray,
For this eucalyptic cloisterdom is anything but gay;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aXbb ccbb ddbb eebb eebb ffbb ggbbaabb ee bb ccbb ddbb hhbb eebb XebbXffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,2,2,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010111110101 101000100010111 101010101010011 01101111101011 111001101011111 101110111111101 111110111111101 111010100111011 11010101011101 11011100110101 111111101011101 111110111011 111010101010101 10100010110001 111010101010101 1101111111011 10010111111111 11100110010011 111010101010101 10111010111011 111010101010011 111011100010101 101010101011101 101000100101011 111000101110101 101110101011101 11010101110101 10101111111011 111101111101001 101001101010011 111110100111111 0100010011011 11010100111111 101000101111101 111110101110101 11101010011001 111111111110101 101010101010101 11111001010110101 111100100110001 101110101010001 101111111010111 11111001010111 111111110110011 11010001110101 101010100110011 11011111110001 11101011101011 101001111010111 111110100010001 11011111010101 10111110111011 11110101010101 111010100010101 101010100110101 11101000111011 11111111000110 01000100010001 11111100110101 1110110101011 101010101110111 111000101110101 111110111110101 00111010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, oh, his, we, of, him, you, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, oh, i, take are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word cook at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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