This is an analysis of the poem Girl In A Miniskirt Reading The Bible Outside My Window that begins with:

Sunday, I am eating a
grapefruit, church is over at the Russian ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abac dcedfgXe fXfhXcb gX dXhah dii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,7,2,5,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100 1110101010 10000 1 101 01001 111110010 1101111 101111 0111010 101001101 10010 1110 1110111 100101101 011010 01001011 110111 11011001 101010010 1010100 110101001010 11101 1010101010 00100 100 101101 1010011 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, there, she are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines god is repeated).

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