This is an analysis of the poem You Just Want To Touch My Plastic that begins with:

You just want to touch my plastic.
And qualify yourself, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXb cdbaXef Xb gccaeb gefe fbf fX afgfdd g adabXb X hXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,2,6,4,3,2,6,1,6,1,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110 110110 11101 00010101 011 11011 01001101 0101010001 00111 0100101111 0101 111100 111001 11101010 11 111101 1 1101110 0111 0100 11110 1101011001 01110010 111111 0010111 1101 010110011011 101 10101 1111101 11001000111 1001011 0010100 1110111101 1011110101 101010011011 11101111110 11011101 0001011111 111 0111010 111001 111011011111 10111011001110 11101 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; your, you are repeated.

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