This is an analysis of the poem Get Some Rest that begins with:
Getting little rest...
Isn't what's suggested is the best thing....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaCAADEfEdA GBBBecbbhhcBdBdBe cABaCAADEfEdA GidbaiciXgaAXgaaDADa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,17,13,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 0010100011 1 110010 010001 11011101 10 1010100 1 01010011 0 0101000 110100010 11001110 11001110 1111010 10101111 1 11001110 11001110 01010101 1010111101 1 11001110 1 11001110 1 1111010 1110111 1 10101 0010100011 1 110010 010001 11011101 10 1010100 1 01010011 0 0101000 110100010 11101 1 0101011 1 01001 1 10111 11 010110 1 111 010 1111001 1011 110 111 110 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (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; progress is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word progress is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word rest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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