This is an analysis of the poem Can It Be Stopped that begins with:
Can they can they dropp it.
Can it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAA AAA aa BXXa aXaAAAA BXAAAAAAAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,4,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 10 01 111110 10 01 1001 1001 100101 1001011 1 1101 1010101 101111 1 111110 1101 111110 1101 100101 101111 111110 10 01 111110 10 01 111110 10 01
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; can, they, it, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words can, hoodwinkers are repeated.
The author used the same word can 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 it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word stopped at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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