This is an analysis of the poem Burn It Down that begins with:
If you don't let me have my way,
I will just burn down the house....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab X cdd BXXebX ffbcd BcXefXacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,3,6,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111 1011101 110 1 10101 101111 111 01110 1010011010 11011 010111 101 101010 10111 1011110101 1110111 001101 111 010111 01010011 1 11010 101110100 111 1111000101 01110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; about, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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- summary of Burn It Down;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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