This is an analysis of the poem Salts And Oils that begins with:
In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog
believing it was Peking duck. Later,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcccdXaefgacaghgieXidjXXficXkXghdXglcllljciihlggfgcgcXkXmbbmjh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010011111 0100111110 010110010110 11011110001 00110110 0010110110 111101 01101111 01111011 111111110 00110011101 10111101011 01100110011 1110110100010 10011011101 111110110010 1000100110 10100101111 1101110101 001011111 1111111101 111001001010 11011111 1101010 10110101 01010101 11001110110 10001011100 010110101 11001010 01010111111 1100011110 101101010 110100101 1111011111 11010101 1100101101 010110111 01010111 0100110010 101010011 1101111 1101011 1011010001 1111111 101001111101 0100101101 01110010011 1101101010 101110101 00110110101 0111111010 101011110101 0011110110 110011101010 101101010 010110011000 01101001110 0010001111 01011101 01010101001 1100001100 11010010011 0010101110 111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2563
- Average number of words per stanza: 476
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, on, and, or, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ham, not are repeated).
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- summary of Salts And Oils;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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