This is an analysis of the poem I Call That True Love that begins with:

You gotta wake up every mornin', tip toe in the
kitchen cook me great T-bone steak...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababcXXdXXbdeXefXdfGXdbddXbXGcdXdG
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100101100 10111111 1001011101110 111101011 110111001101 1100101 10011111111 11011111 111111111 110101010 1101010111 1101110010000111 0111010 10110010001110 11011010 110111111010 00101 111100111010 101111 111111 111111 110101010001 11001101 10111111010010 110100111 11111011111 10111111 10101110111 1101001 111111 10101110101 11101101 1111010111 1110111 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1367
  • Average number of words per stanza: 286
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; me, love, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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