This is an analysis of the poem Comeon! Stop Joking that begins with:
Obsession with possessions.
And the keeping up of appearances, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabXcad abbbbXbX deeaaeca deX bfcb XebdX bee eeX gd DFDFbeXa bgfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,3,4,5,3,3,2,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010 1010100100 0110100010 111001 1011001001 1001010110001 010001001011 11100101 10111010100010 10110101 10101001010101 011010101 010011110101 100111101010100 101110101011 11001101100000 11111111011 10100101 110010101 01000111 10111010010011 11010 01011010101 1001010101 11 01011 111011111 11011111101 1101110010 0110100 11110111 10 11001 11011001 111010101 111011011 011 1111 1110111101 10 110 10110 10 1 11101 1110101 11101 1110101 1 011101001 1111 1101 1 11101011101000 01111010000010001 111101 01000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to, of, that, i, soon are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, and, i, soon are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines good, soon are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase soon connects the lines.
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