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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  • summary of Having A Coke With You;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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