This is an analysis of the poem Eating Dirt that begins with:
her famished tongue feasted on dreams
and she catered to its cravings—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXbX cccXd XdXadcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011011 11100010 1101101 10110111 111111 1011010 1101101 0111111 11101 1111101 011010010 01010001 1101010011 11011010 1100101 010011 1101101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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.
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- summary of Eating Dirt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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