This is an analysis of the poem Breaking All The Rules that begins with:
You don't know what I know, do yah.
Do yah, do yah....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AA B AA B bcd AAD AAD cXXd AAD AAD BXCCcb X AAB BEB BEB BXBXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,2,1,3,3,3,4,3,3,6,1,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 1111 0101001101 11111111 1111 0101001101 101010101 1 101010111 11111111 1111 111111 11111111 1111 111111 1010101 0 101010001 11 11111111 1111 111111 11111111 1111 111111 1100010101 0101 001010 001010 1 100000101 1110 11111111 1111 0101001101 1100010101 010 10101001101 1100010101 010 10101001101 0101001101 10 0101001101 10 0101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; know, yah, you, deceit, defeated, end, these, misdeeds are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, with are repeated.
The author used the same words you, an 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 yah, defeated, misdeeds are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words know, misdeeds at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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