This is an analysis of the poem Get Over The Hump that begins with:

Take your bumps and get those lumps,
Although some days you'll be grumpy....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBC XDXE FGG FGG ABBC FGG XDXE FBGBGG FBGBGG XDXE FGG BBGE BBGEXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,3,4,6,6,4,3,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 11111010 1110110 11011001 111001000 00010111 110010100 1101111 11110111010 1001110 1101010 11110111010 1001110 1101010 1111111 11111010 1110110 11011001 11110111010 1001110 1101010 111001000 00010111 110010100 1101111 11110111010 0110 10011111110 0110 1001110 0101010 11110111010 0110 10011111110 0110 1001110 0101010 111001000 00010111 110010100 1101111 11110111010 1001110 1101010 101111001010 101111001010 10111010 1001111 101111001010 101111001010 10111010 1001111 1111111 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, that, only, can, keep, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words only, you are repeated.

    The author used the same words take, why, only at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words improving, treating, screwed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Get Over The Hump;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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