This is an analysis of the poem No Sunday Chicken that begins with:
I could have sold him up because
His rent was long past due;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeXX cfcfgg fafahh ififjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 011111 11110101 010101 111101010 1101010 11111101 100111 11011101 010101 11010110 1101010 01000101 100111 11110111 010101 010111010 1101110 11010101 100101 11001101 110111 110111110 1100010 01011111 110101 11110101 110111 11111111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to is repeated.
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