This is an analysis of the poem Dump It To Quit that begins with:
You can choose to dump it,
Whenever you get sick of it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAAAAAAb AAAAAAAAb AAAAAAAB AAAAAAAB AAAAAAAAb AAAAAAABXABABABAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,8,8,9,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 01011100 1010 0010100 01011100 10 10 10 1 111010 01011100 1010 0010100 01011100 10 10 10 1 101100 110 101100 110 101100 110 10 11 101100 110 101100 110 101100 110 10 11 111010 01011100 1010 0010100 01011100 10 10 10 1 101100 110 101100 110 101100 110 10 11 10 11 10 11 10 11 10 01
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; it, dump are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dump is repeated.
The author used the same words you, choose at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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