This is an analysis of the poem All You Want Is Just To Snack that begins with:
You went across the border,
And you met a certain match....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCD aBed FGBX aBCD FGB XhD XHD XED XHD XED XHD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1110101 1111001 11111111 11101010 1110101 111100101 11110101 1101 111 01010101101101 11111110 1100010 1110101 1111001 11111111 1101 111 01010101101101 11111110 11110010 1110101 11111110 1110010 1110101 11111110 11100101 111101 11111110 1110010 1110101 11111110 11100101 111101 11111110 1110010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, on, want 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.
The poet repeated the same word snack at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of All You Want Is Just To Snack;
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- idea of the verse;
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