This is an analysis of the poem A Miracle For Breakfast that begins with:
At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee,
waiting for coffee and the charitable crumb ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacde eadbca aecabd dabeac cdaaeb bcedaaXada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010110 101101010001 11100010010100 1101110100 011111001 1001101100010 0110001111010 0111111010 1010110101 11100111101 100111010100 110011110100 1110010110100 10101101010 01010101000100 0100111010 1111101001 0110100101001 1011011001 1110011110100 110111011 111010000010 1001110010 1011011010100 11111110110100 0100101001 10011010110 01001110100 10111101010 1100111001 11001101011 11011110100 11011111010 10011001001 11011111100 01111110010 11101110010 01001010101 100100010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word was is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines river, balcony, sun, miracle, crumb, coffee are repeated).
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