This is an analysis of the poem Call To Get A Cop that begins with:
If you want me arrested,
Call to get a cop....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCDEf ABacXa GGHAaCi bdbjbb j ABCCDEf akii AcaAbih kABCCDcfXGGHAaCi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,6,1,7,4,7,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 10101 11011 01011 11100101 11001 1 0111010 10101 1101111 01111 11111111 01110001011 0011100011 10011011 110111101 0010011 1 101110 1 01101 01011111 101 11010100 01111111 00100111 110 0111010 10101 11011 01011 11100101 11001 1 1111010 0111101 1011 1 111010 011101111 1 111010 01101001 1 1110111 1 0111010 10101 11011 01011 11100101 1111 1 0011100011 10011011 110111101 0010011 1 101110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; you, to are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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