This is an analysis of the poem Me-Stew that begins with:

I have nothing to put in my stew, you see,
Not a bone or a bean or a black-eyed pea,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101111 10110110111 111100101 011101101 11011011111 001001011101 111110111010 111110011010 11101001101 11111101001 111111 1100110 111111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 541
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i'll is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'll is repeated.

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