This is an analysis of the poem Facts About Cheese that begins with:

When the price of cheese was so low a few years ago that the
dairymen seriously thought of giving up the manufacture...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXc ddee XbXcXXXac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101011110100110 10010001010101010 0110101111001 1011010001010 11011111 11010101 00010011 11010111 10111011011101111101 11110110111011110 1010101110001100101100010100 10011011101010100011 110101101101001000111001 10011110101001010111100 0111001010101001000100101 010111011001000110100110010 1100101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (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; of, cheese, factory are repeated.

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  • summary of Facts About Cheese;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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