This is an analysis of the poem An Epicure that begins with:
Should you preserve white mice in honey
Don't use imported ones from China,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcXcX cdcdefef gbgbdada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 110101010 111111010 110101110 10011001 110001110 11010111 010011010 01110101 010101011 01011111 110111011 11110101 010111111 10110101 111110110 11001100 010101010 11010101 110101010 11010101 010111010 11011101 111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; as, them, and are repeated.
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