This is an analysis of the poem Nutritious that begins with:

That banana cake taste,
Grandma use to bake....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcD beeXXFe ghcciaFD dijaceJadicgXeJG aggbaekhXa gkjG hX X iaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,8,16,10,4,2,1,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011 10101 111 010011101 11011 10111 1011101 010110 01010100 11 10100 110110 10010 10 11011 1101 111111101 11 010011101 101 110111 0100010 001011010101 110111011111 110111111 100010 110111 11011 101001 1010001110 10 110101111 10111111 100010 1110 101101 10101010 01010 0101011 10 1111111 11101101 11010010 110111 1010010101 1101 110101 00100010 1110 110110 11101 1101010110 11 1 11101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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 author used the same word that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Nutritious;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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