This is an analysis of the poem Dis Poetry that begins with:
Dis poetry is like a riddim dat drops
De tongue fires a riddim dat shoots like shots ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdceefXfgXg ggffdheifibjXkkddlljbJjJajhhdX ggdXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,30,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101011 01100101111 1100001110 1111110 110011101 10101 11011 110001100100 1011111100 1100011111011 0100110 0100111 1100111111011 11110111 1000111 11000101010101 111001111111101 11000101011101 1011010010101 11001010011011 11101110111100 11101100 1110101 100101110 1110101 1111100110 01101 010110 110001110 11000101110 100011011 110001111 11101010 110001000010 1 0010 11 001 11 0010 110011 11110100 11110100 11110101 0101000 110011111111 111110010010011 1100011 011101 1100011 0101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 542
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, i, dis, fe, poetry, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, de, dis, i are repeated.
The author used the same word dis at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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