This is an analysis of the poem Knocked Up that begins with:
I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought,
And dunno if my legs or back or heart is most wore out; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aXacc ddee ffee gghh ffii ggii jjcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0110101111101 10101111110111 11110101111101 011101010110101 101010101011111 1010101001 111101 0111110110001 110111110010011 11111101010011 11011100110101 11010111110111 11111101111101 011101010110101 110110010101001 11010101110101 1101010111111 01001111110101 11010111110101 0101110111111 01110101011101 0110101110001 1101111111011 01010101010101 0101010111001 11011111011111 11110001010101 11010001010101 11011100110101 101010101110101 101010101110101 01011101010101 010111010010011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, trampin', an', it's, my, too, 'n are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'm, the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word worse at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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