This is an analysis of the poem Delicatessen that begins with:
Why is that wanton gossip Fame
So dumb about this man's affairs?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb defe bdbd Xghg ijij bgbg hbhb fbdb bhbh khkh gggg cici iiii hehe bhbh lhlh fbdb eheh hghg mdmd nhnhXgdgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110101 11010101 11110101 110101001 10010100 010011101 11000101 11110101 11110101 01010101 11010100 11000101 10010101 11011101 10011101 11011011 011111100 01000101 01010111 11000101 11010101 11000101 110100101 111100111 01110101 01010101 01111111 11000101 10011111 01010101 11010101 11011101 11010100 11110101 11010101 11010111 01110101 11000101 01110111 11010001 10010101 10010101 10110101 01011111 11110101 11010101 11010001 11010001 11100101 11011101 11010101 111001001 11011101 11010101 10011101 10110101 11111101 11011111 10111101 11110101 10010111 11010111 11011101 01011001 1111010001 11110111 01000101 01010101 11010100 11010101 00110110 11110101 10110101 0110001 10010101 11010101 01110101 01010101 01111101 11010111 01111111 110111001 01111111 11111101 11000100 11010101 11110111 01110101 11011100 11111111 01010101 01000100
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; from, in, his, he, and, who, for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his, he are repeated.
The author used the same words and, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Delicatessen;
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