This is an analysis of the poem Diet Song that begins with:
Well breakfast black coffee one slice of dry toast no butter no jelly no jam
Lunch just some lettuce two celery stalks no booze no potatoes no ham...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccded XXbff ccffgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101101111011011 111101100111101011 10110111111011011 10101010101001101 1110101110101011111 1101010101101001011101 1010111011001011011 111010010111 010011111111 110011111010 1011011011111011001010 11111001 1111101111101011001 1111111111110101101 11011001010111101001 110110110111111001 110110110111101111 11111011111001011111 1111100010111111111 111011111011 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, dietin', and, me, of, i, you'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Diet Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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