The Eating Of Cookies And Having A Glass Of Milk by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Eating Of Cookies And Having A Glass Of Milk that begins with:

I don't know who they think they are talking to.
Or where their minds are....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXb aXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111100 11111 1011111001 10110111011 11110110 110010011 111010111 1101 11011101010 0100101100101 11100010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • 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 and 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.

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