This is an analysis of the poem Get To Keep Your Thoughts Clear that begins with:

Get to keep your thoughts...
Clear....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbACAbCC AbACAbCC DAEAFGH DAEAFGH AbACAbCCXDAEAFGHh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,7,7,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 1 0010111 1101 10111 1 11010001 110001 10111 1 0010111 1101 10111 1 11010001 110001 10100010 011 1010001 1111 11010101 11 11010 10100010 011 1010001 1111 11010101 11 11010 10111 1 0010111 1101 10111 1 11010001 110001 10100010 011 1010001 1111 11010101 11 11010 110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (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; be is repeated.

    The author used the same words get, don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Get To Keep Your Thoughts Clear;
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  • history of its creation;
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