This is an analysis of the poem Sixty Four Cents Per Gallon that begins with:
Sixty four cents.
That's all they pay....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbXcdXac bbdcXccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 1111 101111001 100101 1111 1010110 11010101 010010 1010100100 101 10100101 1111 01000100111001 111101101 1101111 11111 11011101 101110101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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; of is repeated.
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- summary of Sixty Four Cents Per Gallon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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