This is an analysis of the poem You Like To Pour It that begins with:
You don't want lemon in your tea.
Even though it's mixed in the recipe....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCC ABCCC cCC ACCC bcdCCCCXdCdCdCCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,4,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 1010100100 11110 1101011101010 11010 11110011 1010100100 11110 1101011101010 11010 1110 1101011101010 11010 11110011 11110 1101011101010 11010 101000100 110 1 101101000110 11010 1101011101010 11010 1 101101000110 1 101101000110 1 101101000110 1101011101010 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, pour, it, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you 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 it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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