This is an analysis of the poem Breakfasts With Joachim that begins with:

Sunday morning at Mel's Country Kitchen,
the place quiet, the locals bowing...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXcdXefdgaghXXaXXiXcXhbXiXeabXXecfgXabecXfffaabf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111010 011001010 011111110 111010101100 0111011110 0110101111 011111110 10111010110 111011111 010001111010 0111011011 11010110101 110110011101 01100101101 111011011000 11010101100 0010011010 10010101 00101010101 1010110010 010101011010 1011111010 011010111 001101101 101110100110 0101101010 1110010010 1100111100 1000111011 111001110 101011111010 1011101011 101111001010 01110111 100010011 1111101001 1010111111 01100101000 1110000100 010011010 011010010010 01110100110 11011011010 1011110111 1110101110 01000010111 11010111 1111111101 0111011110 11110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2046
  • Average number of words per stanza: 373
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; he is repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase in connects the lines.

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