This is an analysis of the poem My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop that begins with:

Serum of steam rising from the cup,
what comfort to be known personally by Barbara, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcac deefcX XfgdhheeijXegk ahbiaabXe X ajiehXk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,14,9,1,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110001 11000110001100 0011011111 1101101101011 0110 11011100 1010110 11010001 1101111101 1101011001001 11010110010 11100010011010 110111011111 11010111001001 11010101010 101010101 1101111 01100010 1010110 100110110111 100101010111 11111111 1101011001 1010 0110101101 111011001 1110010 10110010001010 10100100110010 0111011 10010101 101101 1101111111011 111010011 101111 101111011 1101 111 01101101 1111001 10011 10010111110 110101011 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words immigrants, maybe are repeated.

    The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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