This is an analysis of the poem The Difference Between Pepsi And Coke that begins with:

Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat
intolerable feelings of inadequacy;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcddeadXbefdfgcgacdXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010111010 0100010001000 1010101010101 10010010100 1101110000100 110101 1101001111010 00100001 111111010100 011011 1010100111101 0101001 010111101010011 101010 001010101111 0010011 110101000101 0110101 111101010011 001010 111001100011 110011010 1100010111010 101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1024
  • Average number of words per stanza: 162
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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.

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