This is an analysis of the poem Get Stiff Quick that begins with:
When your backbone bends,
And your vision dims......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCD XaCD cBCD XcaX eCDBCD AABCD eBCD XeeBCDXBCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,6,5,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 11101 110 11 111 1111101 01010 11 111 11011101101 110 11 111 110101010 1111 110101010111 110101011011 1 11 111 110 11 111 11111 11101 110 11 111 111110100 110 11 111 1111011011 11110111101 11101011111 110 11 111 110 11 111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; get, to, stiff are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word get is repeated.
The author used the same words when, no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word quick at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Get Stiff Quick;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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