This is an analysis of the poem Come On And Get A Big Piece that begins with:

Come on and get a big piece of love,
My love......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAB AA AAC AA deXd AAB AA AAC AA eXfb dXcXX AAB AA AAC GG ff GGXAAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,2,4,3,2,3,2,4,5,3,2,3,2,2,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101101 11 11111 111101101 111101101 111101101 11 11111 111101101 111101101 11110101011 1111001 100 1 111101101 11 11111 111101101 111101101 111101101 11 11111 111101101 111101101 11 11 10011 0101 11 01 100 11011 1010 111101101 11 11111 111101101 111101101 111101101 11 11111 1111011 01010111 01101111 11101111 1111011 01010111 111101101 11 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    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; love, come, on, and, get, big, piece, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words come, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love, piece are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Come On And Get A Big Piece;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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