This is an analysis of the poem Even When I Rap It With A Scatting that begins with:
That beat.
Sometimes I lose that beat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABBCC AABBCC ACACACDECDEC ACACACDECDEC AABBCC AABBCC ACACACDECDEC DEC DECXDEC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,12,12,6,6,12,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 011111 11001101 11 111 10101 11 011111 11001101 11 111 10101 1101010 10101 1101110 10101 1101010 10101 101110001011 101 0101 101110001011 101 0101 1101010 10101 1101110 10101 1101010 10101 101110001011 101 0101 101110001011 101 0101 11 011111 11001101 11 111 10101 11 011111 11001101 11 111 10101 1101010 10101 1101110 10101 1101010 10101 101110001011 101 0101 101110001011 101 0101 101110001011 101 0101 101110001011 101 0101 101110001011 101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, beat are repeated.
The author used the same words that, my, even 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 beat is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word gone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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