This is an analysis of the poem Not Seeking A Free Lunch that begins with:
Give me the illiterate.
And those illegitimate, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcaXb XXXdebXe cXXadXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100 1110100 00100100 111010 0010101 11110 1000100 11011010 111110 0111010 0101 1101011 111011 1010101 101001 10101101 1001110001 110100 0110001 11101 11101110100 010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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