This is an analysis of the poem Ang Tunay Na Lalaki Meets Barbie At The Shark Bar that begins with:

on Mulberry and Spring on a rainy night.
Her head sticks out of some woman’s tote bag...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcbdceffeXegaXhXcXXbaiijXXghXegcekfghcaebidkXbXXfjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010110101 0111011011 11100111 1110110011101110 11101110101 101011010101 111110010111 1101110101 1010011010101 1010010101 10111101000101 1001011101101 100110010110010 1001001011110 01101011101 010111010001011 101110001001 11000111100 1010000011000101 101010101101 11001001100 1010010101 10101110110011 01010101001 101111100101 1010101011 010101010110 1110101100100 1101100101 1010110011 1011101 1100101110110 10011001001 11110101001 10110110 0110110111 1100001001011 1110101011010 10000101011 011110110010 01011011000010 1011111110 0101101100011 1100101010 101110010001 011111011 01010110 1000101011 10101100 1000110110 0111011111 0010111011 1011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2468
  • Average number of words per stanza: 448
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; on, her, to, you, barbie, it are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines barbie is repeated).

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