This is an analysis of the poem Demand It From The Top that begins with:
Stop the flock of politicians,
Put them on a leash....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAC CCCdccEXf ABAC CCECdXf ABGG ABGG dCdCXABGG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,4,7,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 10101 10101010 10001 010001 1101001 11010001 1110011 1010001 11110001 101010100010 1 01000111110 10101010 10101 10101010 10001 010001 1101001 101010100010 11010001 1111111 1010001 11110 10101010 10101 101011101110 01011001010 10101010 10101 101011101110 01011001010 11010 001 010 001 10101010 10101 101011101110 01011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word stop at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word equal at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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