This is an analysis of the poem Sometimes There Is Goo And No Gah that begins with:

Love is not all goo and gah.
Sometimes there is goo and no gah, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX abbXbcaX defgg f cfggae hXhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,5,1,6,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 01101111 110 11 01001111010 0110100 110100 01011011 0010110010 101 110101 11011101110101 1101 11110010101010 101 101110110101 11011101001 11111001 1 1101 111101 10111110011 11111111011101 1000 110101 10101011000110010 111011 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    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; and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same word and 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 gah, calendar are repeated).

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  • summary of Sometimes There Is Goo And No Gah;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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