This is an analysis of the poem Golden Nuggets that begins with:
I am not a maker of cotton candy.
Nor am I a distributor of peppermint sticks....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa ba XbabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101001010 1110010001011 11110010101 01001101 101010011111 1101010111101 011111111010 01000 10111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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