This is an analysis of the poem Chewing Slowly that begins with:
Chewing slowly,
Only after I’d eaten...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbbXaXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1010 10101110 1110 10 101 11001 11001 01100010 0110 11101 010100 011110 00101101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, law are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines law is repeated).
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