This is an analysis of the poem Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria that begins with:
Fine living . . . a la carte?
Come to the Waldorf-Astoria!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cbb XdXefXXaggchi XXbhfj fXiXhb daXcecgagaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,13,6,6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011 100101100 10101 11110011010 1101100 10010001011 11101010111 1111010 101 1001011011110100001 1101101101001 110100010100 001010010000010 1110100 1111110110110 110101011111 111101001110110 01 10 1011011011110 1001001101110 11111010101 111110101100110100 1 1010 110100 11001 11001 10110 110 110101011110 11 10100111011110 110111101110 0111111111 1110110101101 1110 110110110011101 110100 11111001011011 11011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 repeated the same word astoria at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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