This is an analysis of the poem Sugar Cubes that begins with:
To know how lowdown people will go,
With self-centeredness on their minds to please......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbcbXe cfXfXgddX ccfhbbbaa gX gage gaaX hb X bXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,2,4,4,2,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111001 01100011101 10010 010010101011 01100111011 10111101 010000101 11 11011010010 10010101 001000101 0110011111001 100 1011110010 1010101101110 00100110 110111010 0101010010111 111011101001 101010100110 10011101101 1 1111101001 11111011101 1111101101 11000110111101 1101001111100 11 11111101 110 1111110101101 110111011 110110101101 11110001 110111 110101011101 1111010 1 11 1111 101 110011 0011010011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, they, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word someone is repeated.
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- summary of Sugar Cubes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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