This is an analysis of the poem Teach Me How To Eat that begins with:
If you notice I stay hungry,
Teach me how to eat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAB cBdB edXB cbffXXb EBAB EBAB ABABABXBAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,7,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101110 11101 01101010 11101 110011010 11101 110001111 11101 11010111 01011101 11010101 11101 110111110 111101 11011101 01111101 111101101 11 1101 01111111 11101 010 11101 01111111 11101 010 11101 01101110 11101 01101010 11101 010 11101 11101 010 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; teach, me, how, to, eat are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word teach is repeated.
The author used the same word success at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eat is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word eat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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