This is an analysis of the poem Peanut-Butter Sandwich that begins with:

I'll sing you a poem of a silly young king
Who played with the world at the end of a string,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcccbcddbeeebfffbgggXeffbccXbdddbXcXbhchbeeeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010001011 11001101001 111011101 11110101010 01010101 01011101 01110001 11001101010 00110101 11110101 11111101 11010101010 11110101 11011101 11010101 11010101010 11111101 11010001 11011111 01110101010 01010101 01010101 11010101 01001101010 010110101 01010111 11111101 11110101010 010011010 010111010 01011010 11011101010 01110111 01110101 11000111 11110101010 11010011 11010101 11110111 01110101010 11110111 11111111 11011011 11111101010 01010101 01110001 11011111 01111111 01010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1921
  • Average number of words per stanza: 344
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, his, tried, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, he, and, the, with are repeated.

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  • summary of Peanut-Butter Sandwich;
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