This is an analysis of the poem Private Eye Lettuce that begins with:

Three crates of Private Eye Lettuce,
the name and drawing of a detective ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010110 0111000010 010101101 001010 10110101010 1001001 010001 111101100 11110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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  • summary of Private Eye Lettuce;
  • central theme;
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