This is an analysis of the poem Sweet Meat Cleaver that begins with:
Sweet meat cleaver...
May your sharpened blade, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCDXXd bebf eefcX aBCDdgbdf Xfbdgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110 11101 0101110 01011010101 111100 01100101 01000101 11011010 001010 11011 001100010 11110110 100100100010 11100010101 01000100 01111 1110 11101 0101110 01011010101 10101101111 100101011 010100110 0010101 1010011 0110101001 011100001001010 10101110101010 10010101101 10101100101 00100011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to, of are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sweet Meat Cleaver;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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