Somebody Slipped Some Crack In Your Soup by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Somebody Slipped Some Crack In Your Soup that begins with:

That 'you'...
Are suddenly interested, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAABC XccddeX XAABC bffgd eXgcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 11001000 0111010 10100010100 1110010 1111000 00101001 111011111 01110001 11010011 111101 001101111 11 11001000 0111010 10100010100 1110010 111101000110100 1 1110111 1111111010 100 01 101110111011 11010101010 1111 11110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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

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