This is an analysis of the poem Bad Attitudes that begins with:
Don't let a feeling stop,
From getting good to drop it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAC abac DBeC DBeD AeD bAeD DBeD DBeC ABAC DBeCXXDBeCbdC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,3,4,4,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 0100010 110101 01 1110101 00100010 1110101 11 1101 1001 1 11101111 1101 1001 1 10001101 1110001 1 10101101 11010 1110001 1 10101101 1101 1001 1 10001101 1101 1001 1 11101111 110101 0100010 110101 01 1101 1001 1 11101111 111010001 1101 1001 1 11101111 1101 01011111 01
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don't is repeated.
The author used the same words don't, bad at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines attitudes is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words you, attitudes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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