This is an analysis of the poem He Gave Me No Meat that begins with:
My brother, I am hungry,—give me food
Such as my Father gives me at his board;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaababacdcdaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110111 1111011101 1111000010 1101010101 1111010101 11001111111 0010011101 1111001111 1101010111 1111010101 0111010101 111110111 1111010011 1001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, of, thee are repeated.
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