This is an analysis of the poem Mutton that begins with:
Gently stir and blow the fire,
Lay the mutton down to roast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdedeeefgfggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 1010101 10101010 0010101 1110101 1000111 1010101 1010111 1011101 1010101 1011101 1110111 1010101 1010111 1011101 1010111 0110111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 549
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 let is repeated.
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- summary of Mutton;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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