This is an analysis of the poem The Icecream People that begins with:

the lady has me temporarily off the bottle
and now the pecker stands up...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXefffXc XaaccbXXXaghifXjdX egeXjf cihefcff dc Xc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,18,6,8,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101001010 1101011 10 11011101 010100010101 10101101 0111 0100 1101010 110 1011011011110 11101 1111111100 10 01010110110 10001010101 1100101 1110 1000111101011 11010010111100 101100111110 110010010 1001101100 01 110011101 100 11011010111 110111101000 1010110011101 1001110 1101111001001 1111111110 10101001111 01001110100 1111010 110 11011 101101011 1100100 111 1100110101 111010100011 101110110 1 0100101110 0111 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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  • summary of The Icecream People;
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