This is an analysis of the poem Chocolate that begins with:
Velvet fruit, exquisite square
I hold up to sniff...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc XXd cea Xbe dXd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 11101 011011 1111 011010 0111110 11011 10100111 1101101 10111 011111 10101 1010110 10010 01101110 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 63
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Chocolate;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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