This is an analysis of the poem Too Raw To Eat that begins with:
Picked over like a piece of meat
Nibbled and a little bit uneasy...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCDC AECCFA ABCCDC AECCFA AFAXAFAAfA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1010101010 1000001 110101 0101 0101 11011001 0010110010 11000111 0100001 110010 1101 11010101 1010101010 1000001 110101 0101 0101 11011001 0010110010 11000111 0100001 110010 1101 11010101 110010 1101 11010101 110010 1101 11010101 1110010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word picked at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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