This is an analysis of the poem On The High Price Of Fish that begins with:
Cocoa-nut naught,
Fish too dear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aaaa efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 111 1101 11111 11011 11011 01101 1001 11101 11101 10101 101011 101101 11001 11111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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