This is an analysis of the poem Superior that begins with:

Mother, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly childish!
She does not know the difference between the lights in the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcdXXefdfdeXfbXcXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001010101010 11110100010100 1101 11111001011111 1110100001 11100101011001001 1110100111111 10001101010010 111111001011011 0101111011 10101110001100111 011000110100010111 1001 11111001011101 1010010111101110 110101111011111 110101011011011 1010 1011001010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1027
  • Average number of words per stanza: 195
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, and, in, i are repeated.

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