This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Table Of Fulfilled Wishes that begins with:
Teach me not to nibble and feed,
On an appetite of my own selfish needs....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABccdc Xbee adbcXd ABXaXXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011 11101011101 11100110 1010111 0010101 010010 11001011111 1111010 001011 010000110101 0110111 110101000100 1100110 0100101 010011010 1011011 11101011 11101011101 11011110011 11001 01010100101 100001 010101000110 0010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word teach is repeated.
The author used the same word teach at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Upon The Table Of Fulfilled Wishes;
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