This is an analysis of the poem The Simple Truth that begins with:
I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes,
took them home, boiled them in their jackets...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaccaXdefaaceXXaXXXdeaXXcXbXdfcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011011010 101100110 11011000101011 1111011 10101010101 1100110111 10010110101 010010101110 10111010110 000101010111 001010101111 1011100110101110 10001001011100 10111110101 10011111101 110110101011 10001111110 11 111111111011 1101011001011 11011010010110 0101001001100 00110101110 10101111101 111111011001001 011101011010101 1010100111111 10100010101001 0101010101000100 01001011101 1101001011111 011101011010 1011111010111 0011111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1758
- Average number of words per stanza: 324
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, them, in, you, they, of, must, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Simple Truth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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