This is an analysis of the poem What Hidden Sweetness Is There that begins with:

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What hidden sweetness there is in this emptiness of the belly! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXbcdcbXXeeXXXbfafXadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1101010001000010 101010111111 101100100010111 011110010111 0111101110110010 01010010001001011 10010101010111101 010101011010 0110010111000101 1011001011100011 01100110101100110 010110110010010 111010101001001 1111101101 101110100111010 01011110 100110110111110 111100111010010 0100101000100110 10100010101010 0010010001001010100 100101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, fire, and, belly, of, your are repeated.

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