This is an analysis of the poem Something Decent To Eat that begins with:
Armchair warriors,
Approving from distances......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aababXXXbccX DBDBBBBXDBDBBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100 0100100 00100101 111011101 011110101 011101011101 11110001 11101101 101001 1011111001 1010010110011 011111010 1111 1010101001 1101 111001001 1101010101 1011011 1110111101 1111 1010101001 1101 111001001 1101010101 1011011 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word give at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word appetite at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Something Decent To Eat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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