This is an analysis of the poem Mustard 'And' Pudding? that begins with:
Climbing out the crib,
To take care of personal business......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbXc adedeeed bX cdf fXeX f bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,2,3,4,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 011010010 01 10100100 0110 0110101 10101001 1011111010 010101011 011100 1110101 10101001001 10010 101010 01100111 10001001111 11111 10111110101 11101001001 111010111010 0100010 10110 1 11111101 1010111011 11101110100 11 1111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pudding is repeated).
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- summary of Mustard 'And' Pudding?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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