This is an analysis of the poem Late Anniversary Madrigal that begins with:

May you find help from action figures I keep.
May you find them in the top drawer...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabXX ccXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101011 11100011 1101111 111010 010010101010 11101 111011 1100101101 101001 1011 101011000 11100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; you is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words may, and, when are repeated.

    The author used the same word may at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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