This is an analysis of the poem Muscular And Thick that begins with:
I don't see how you can eat that meat.
Ripe and dripping moisture licked....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb cXcXXaX dd Xa ddX b XX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,2,2,3,1,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111 1110101 1100110 010110101 10010010011 100101 10101 111010101 11000 011101 0101010 10011110 11111 101010 10111011 11011110100110 1010111100101 111100101 1000 1 101001111011 11010011010 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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:
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.
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- summary of Muscular And Thick;
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