This is an analysis of the poem Greasy Fingers You Don'T Need 'Em that begins with:
Would you give up your midnight snack,
Knowing you should not do that? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB CCX AB CCX dd CCX ee CCX FBgAAHcIII J AB CCX AB CCX FBgAAHcIII Jai CCX ABAB CCX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,3,2,3,2,3,10,1,2,3,2,3,10,3,3,4,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 1011111 11 111 1 1111101 0010101 11 111 1 1110111 01110111 11 111 1 1111101 1010101 11 111 1 011010110 110111 1 110111 0011111 01 1 10011 1010001 11 10101110 11111111 1011111 11 111 1 1111101 0010101 11 111 1 011010110 110111 1 110111 0011111 01 1 10011 1010001 11 10101110 1111 11 11 111 1 11111111 1011111 1111101 0010101 11 111 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 62
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; oh, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines oh is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase oh connects the lines.
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