This is an analysis of the poem They Feed They Lion that begins with:
Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter,
Out of black bean and wet slate bread,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXC dbXeXC eddeXeC XadXddC dbdXXbXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,7,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101010 10111111 100100101001 10101101111010 1101 10011 0010011011011 10100111101010 101001101101 100101010101001 1101 1010111 101101000101 1011100011 00010001100100 0010110111 001001100010 1101 00110010 101100100110 00101001 0101011010 1110001010 0111101 1101 01111111 0111101011 011101001 1100110010 0011001110 011111010 1111101010111 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, out, come, from, my, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, from are repeated.
The author used the same words out, from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word grow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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