This is an analysis of the poem Dumping To Pump Up A Negative that begins with:

Pull from me...
My very best....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBB AXCB CCcC ABBB AXCb CXCd AXCBXCCCdCCCd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 1101 0010 101 101 10000 0010111 00110010 10110101 0100110100 11110111 0100110100 101 1101 0010 101 101 10000 0010111 0011010 10110101 010011101 11110101 101100111 101 10000 0010111 00110010 10110101 0100110100 11110101 101011111 10110101 0100110100 11110101 0101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word pull at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Dumping To Pump Up A Negative;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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