This is an analysis of the poem Sticky And Wet that begins with:
When one runs up a heat,
No sweat drips sweet....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABA CD CX EDE AFEE AABA CDE AF EE AA EE AA EE AFEDXAAAdEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,3,4,4,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1111 1101010 001001 0100010 0100101 0100010 0110011 1100010 101010001 1100010 1011 011101 101010 100110 111101 1111 1101010 001001 0100010 0100101 1100010 1011 011101 101010 100110 111101 1111 101010 100110 111101 1111 101010 100110 1011 011101 1100010 101010001 1011 1011 1011 10100111 101010 100110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 68
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sticky is repeated.
The author used the same words a, sticky 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 wet is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bummer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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