This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful Soup that begins with:
BEAUTIFUL Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaAA AABa ccXaaXAABa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 1000110 11110111 100101001 100101001 110011 110011 11001110 1001001 10011111 1110101 11111111 1001001001 1001001001 110011 110011 11001110 1001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; soup, oop, soo, beautiful are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words soup, beau, beautiful, pennyworth are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soup, oop are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word soup at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase soup connects the lines.
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