This is an analysis of the poem Having A Coke With You that begins with:
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbXcXX cd eXeddXXdebfXfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011110010101101011 1101011010100001001010 1001011011110101001010 1001011111001011110 100100110101001010 1001001001111011011010 0010011001111010111 11010100010011010110100 0011110111110111 011101011010100 10101101110001111 11001010011001000 11 111111011111010001 011001010100100011010001 11101101011111010011 10111111001111101010 111111010010100111 10010010100101011010111011 1101100100010010 111010110011011011 11110010010111010101100 101 0110110011000100 1011001101110111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; partly, because, as, of, in, you, or, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word partly is repeated.
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