This is an analysis of the poem Get Up Off Your Pity Pot To Stop It that begins with:

To wiggle out from under all doubts,
With a hanging them out to dry......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbc DDbbeDBC FeX FgFDFF HAHAeFDFF FgFDFF DDbbeDBC FgFDFF FeI iFFXFeIFFf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,3,6,9,6,8,6,3,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101011 00100101 01010001 001001010 11101010 0010100 01 01 1 11111010 011001101 0101001 11111101010 1 111110101 11111101010 0 01011 10110010 101011 1011100 11101110 0110100 11101110 0110100 1 01011 10110010 101011 1011100 11111101010 0 01011 10110010 101011 1011100 11101010 0010100 01 01 1 11111010 011001101 0101001 11111101010 0 01011 10110010 101011 1011100 11111101010 1 111111010101 11111010101 001011 11011100 11111101010 1 111111010101 001011 11011100 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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; to, get, up, off, your, pity, pot, not are repeated.

    The author used the same word just 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 quick is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word benefit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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