This is an analysis of the poem My Rules that begins with:
If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcbXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101111101 11110100110101 11111101 111101 10100111011 11111001 1111111101 110010110 111001101111 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, and 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 My Rules;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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