This is an analysis of the poem Beating On Your Drum With A Conscious Done that begins with:
Beating with a meaning when you come,
Thumping on your drum! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAAAAA A ABCABDE AAABB AAABBF ABCABDE ABF ABFXBFBFBFFFB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,5,6,7,3,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010111 10111 101111 100010111 10111 101111 101111 101101101 111 1011100101 1101110 111 111110101 1110101 01111101 101101101 101101101 101101101 101010111011 10101010101 101101101 101101101 101101101 101010111011 10101010101 10101000101010 111 1011100101 1101110 111 111110101 1110101 01111101 101101101 10101010101 10101000101010 101101101 10101010101 10101000101010 1011100101 10101000101010 1011100101 10101000101010 1011100101 10101000101010 10101000101010 10101000101010 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dee, bummy, bum, dummies, dum, with, honey, and, money are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word bummy is repeated.
The author used the same word bummy 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 bum, dum, money are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word money at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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