This is an analysis of the poem Gone Are My Nuts that begins with:

Gone are my nuts.
The ones I mixed up, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAC defa dgfg Xhi faXfaABAC ciXeich
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,9,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1111 01111 01011101 1110 010111101 1110001 01011 11100100001 110101 1110101001 101011 100111 10101010101 110101100 01011000111 11000101001 01100101101 1101 110110100101 1 1111 01111 01011101 1110 111100 111000111 111101101 110011 101101110 10011010111 0010100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i 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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  • summary of Gone Are My Nuts;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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