This is an analysis of the poem Eating And Drinking Chapter Vi that begins with:
Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, "Speak to us of Eating and Drinking."
And he said: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a b c d b a X b d b X X b X X c X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010011110010101100 111 11111101000111111001101 11111011101001010111101011010 11111110110110100010111101111010111100010 11101101011 10011011110111111001101101010011101010001001 111110110111010100 1111110011100011 101110110 10101011110011 11101011 10101101110100 100101110010110101001011 1011010111101010100 111111010010100 10101110111001101111 111000100101010111010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 83 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to, that, your, you, my, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Eating And Drinking Chapter Vi;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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