This is an analysis of the poem Borderline Mambo that begins with:
As if the lid stayed put on the marmalade.
As if you could get the last sip of champagne...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbcdXeXfcXXfdafddXXceX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011110101 10111011001 1001000101 10110110101110 1001111011110 11110011111 001010011101101 11111011110 100101010100001 101111010110 110010000101 01010110110110 0111101011101 1101110101010 11101111011 1010111011010 10101011010 10010011111 0111111101 1010010101 011101010 1001010101101 01110100110 10110101101 1011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1231
- Average number of words per stanza: 229
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, if, of, in, chance, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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