This is an analysis of the poem Song Beside A Sippy Cup that begins with:

In the never truly ever
truly dark dark night, ever...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcX aaXXXcad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101010 1011110 1111 111 11111 01111 10111 1111 00101010 101111 101010 1111 10101100 111110 00101010 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dark is repeated.

    The author used the same word in 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 ever is repeated).

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