This is an analysis of the poem The Clean Plater that begins with:

Some singers sing of ladies' eyes,
And some of ladies lips,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcddddDbXbXcecedddaadDfefeghghbddddDhiXiXhihddddddD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 110101 011111011 111111 01010101 0101010 010110111 0101010 11110111 01010101 1 11 1101101 1001001 11001010 1011001 01110110 1110010010 11001001 101010110 001101101 111 11 111101001 101011 11011 11 11 110101001 1101001 10011111 110111 11010101 110101 101000101 011011 11001 1111 11010101 1 11 1101101 10101011 01100100100 101001100 1101110100 11011011 01011001 1110111110 11101001 001 01 1011101 111011 101001 001 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1506
  • Average number of words per stanza: 281
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; food, and, or, it's are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, just are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines food is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase food connects the lines.

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