This is an analysis of the poem When Dean Young Talks About Wine that begins with:

The worm thrashes when it enters the tequila.
The grape cries out in the wine vat crusher....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX ab cccc dd eaX edfg gfb geeeX Xfb Xc ccbXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,4,2,3,4,3,5,3,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010100010 0111001110 11111011010101 1011101010 111110111 1111111 1101101010 11111101 111001001101 110011101101 111010111 1101011011010111 00010100010 111 01110100 0101001 110100010 1110010010110101 10100111 101010011 11001010111101010 100100010101 10001011110100 0010101010110 101010101000 010101000110 111 1110101 1010101010000 10101010001 110101 1101110 1111001001 100010 1010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; wine, he, says, his, of, where, when, hurt are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he, where, when are repeated.

    The author used the same words he, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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