This is an analysis of the poem He's Not Fond Of Rice that begins with:

She dresses nice and speaks with falsities.
But she's never without spring water....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbbc bacXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101110100 1110010110 11010101110100 11101000110100 1101101110101 00101101 1011010101 11101 110 01101011010 1110101 1101011101101 11111 110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.

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  • summary of He's Not Fond Of Rice;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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