This is an analysis of the poem What You Get Is A Pinch To Feel that begins with:
I'm here to bite not to lick.
Or to soothe blemished egos....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXX bcbXbcaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101 1011010 011011101 1110 1101011 11100101 10111010 1101 110111 011101010 10100101 01101 0111010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
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- summary of What You Get Is A Pinch To Feel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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