This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Salt that begins with:
This salt
in the salt cellar...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaXaceccfXcXfgXaaXgXXXeXhi ceahechfaabiaefbagXecabiXdgafgaXXggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,36,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 00110 1110011 11 11 011 1 01 1101 0011 1 00110 101 11001 1000 111 01 0 01 0010 110000 010 10 10 0 10 11 010 1 001 01110 0101 010010 100010100 001 11110010 001 1 11110 10 100 101 01 11 010 0010 101 1000 1 011 100 10 000110 11001 100101 010101 0101 101010010 111010 010 101 100100 0101 1101010 00111000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 14 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; salt, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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