This is an analysis of the poem An Almost Made Up Poem that begins with:

I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny
blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdefgebdheeeciecajiXfaXjghXccXchcffb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101010010 111111110 1111010001 111111101 11011010101 1101011001 10111010111 110101100 01101111111 10110111110 01110111110 1100111110110 1111001011 010101011111 0101011001 111101001101 00110111010 0010011011001 10111110111 111000111110 01010110100 111101110100 10010101111 1010110010111 10110101101010 101101010111 11101110011100 1011100110011 11110110110 11001111111 100101111 1101011011011 011100101111010 1100111101011 110101111110 101011101101 11111001001111 1110010010111 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1863
  • Average number of words per stanza: 369
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, you, never, 146, famous, her are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tiny, you are repeated).

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