This is an analysis of the poem On A Diet Denying that begins with:
Tell me this...
Since I admit, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAcDEBXbcXABADEBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 1101 111100 0001111101 111100111 1010010 111010011 111001 01010110 010011101 110 1101 111100 111100111 1010010 111010011 00
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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:
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; you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word tell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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