This is an analysis of the poem The Health-Food Diner that begins with:

The Health-Food Diner
No sprouted wheat and soya shoots...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXb Xccc deXe fgeg X fhdh Xfaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110 11011101 110001 1011101 011101 11111110 110111 1011101 010001 1110101 111101 11110111 111101 11011101 010101 10011101 110111 0 1011101 110111 1111111 110101 10111101 111101 11011101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and is repeated.

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