This is an analysis of the poem Do I Love To Eat? that begins with:
Do I love to eat?
Well, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXdee daafX AfdXgcX AXaa ffaXaaXAbdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,7,4,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 1 1010110 111010 1111010 110110 11101100010 11110010 0101101101 10110100101 1001111 0111001001 11101 1101 1111001100 100011110 1011011 111000010011 111100111010 11101 1111110100011 11101010100101 110011001 11101 111101101 10111011 0101010011 110100100 10100011 11101 1 00010010100 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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 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; and, to, i, as, my are repeated.
The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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