This is an analysis of the poem A Condiment that begins with:
When honesty becomes a commodity,
Or a condiment one feels they should request......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXbc XdcdXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11000100100 10100111101 01001001011001010 0001011001011011 1111001110010 10101011100101 111010100010001 1 0010100011101 0011110010 11110110100 10110000111010 0101001100 11001010100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- summary of A Condiment;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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