This is an analysis of the poem The Fruits You Eat that begins with:

Come get your quota noted,
To be sold to those you know....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAB ABAB CBCD EAEB CBCD ABAB EAEB CBCDCBCD EAEBXABCBCD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 0010111 1111010 0111101 1111010 0010111 1111010 0111101 0111 1111 0111 1101 11111111 11111010 11111111 0010111 0111 1111 0111 1101 1111010 0010111 1111010 0111101 11111111 11111010 11111111 0010111 0111 1111 0111 1101 0111 1111 0111 1101 11111111 11111010 11111111 0010111 1111010 0010111 0111 1111 0111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; to, your, doo, bah, dee, dah are repeated.

    The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word glow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Fruits You Eat;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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