This is an analysis of the poem No Half-Time For Snacks that begins with:
I am often amused
By those who believe...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefd eeccg ahaef ijiaicihge hhXfXejfaehjXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,5,10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 11101 0101011 1101111 111110100 1010001 0011101 11001 101011 1100111011 011001 0101011011 11111 0011110100 101111010 011110 011110 1110101 11010 0110111 1110110100110 010011001 101010101 00111101 01101011 1100111 11000101 11011101 11101011 1 011111 1 101011 010 100111111 000101 1011101010 0101 11110010 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of No Half-Time For Snacks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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