This is an analysis of the poem Belly Good that begins with:
A heap of wheat, says the Song of Songs
but I've never seen wheat in a pile. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXXbfegggXhfXhefeachggfgdiaXeeciacgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 111011001 1001010010 11011111 1011100101 111110111 10101011011 1110100101 11010010111 0010010110 010110011 101101001 110011001 1010101100 10111101 11110111 1110100110 11101001 10101010 1111111 100101110 01111010 1101011101 11010111011 001010101010 1011101110 1110010111 1101011011 111111111 01111101010 0010011101010 101001101 01110100011 111101101010 1100100101 1110110110 00101101 111101011 1111101101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1578
- Average number of words per stanza: 295
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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- summary of Belly Good;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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