This is an analysis of the poem Steaming Wienerschnitzels that begins with:

Pressed against their lips and bunned,
Are my steaming wienerschnitzels....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXAX XaXa XXAX XXbcXXXcX bXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111110 11101000 10111010 10101 1010110110 0101 11010111 100001 10111110 11101000 10111010 10101 10 1100 111100010 10 1100101 111111010110 0111001110 1 111 1111010 11 101101 111 100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • 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 is repeated.

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

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