This is an analysis of the poem The Chip On Your Shoulder that begins with:
You'll learn when you're older, that chip on your shoulder
Which you dare other boys to upset...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbacXcadaddedeAeceXdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111110 111101001 111111110111 11111101 111010111110 11011001 110110011010 11001001 110010110110 11011011 110010110110 01111011 111010111010 11111101 1011110111110 11000001 111110111110 11011001 110011110011 11100111 1111110110110 011010011 1111110111110 01001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1083
- Average number of words per stanza: 203
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, when are repeated.
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- summary of The Chip On Your Shoulder;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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