This is an analysis of the poem Getting Bodacious And Less Discreet that begins with:

The guys lay in secret with misters.
Laying discreeted doing dirty deeds....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAAA ABC ABB AXdada ABC ABB AAAA ABB ABB ABB ABBXABBBBbBA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,6,3,3,4,3,3,3,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010010 1010010101 1101111 11110111 011010010 10101110010 1010111101 011010010 11101111 1110111001 011010010 0101100100 011010 001001 111010 00101 011010010 10101110010 1010111101 011010010 11101111 1110111001 011010010 1010010101 1101111 11110111 11011010010 1101001101 101001101 11011010010 1101001101 101001101 11011010010 1101001101 101001101 11011010010 1101001101 101001101 11011010010 1101001101 101001101 1101001101 101001101 1101001101 101001101 011010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, with, and, getting, bodacious, less, discreet are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words the, you 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 discreet is repeated).

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

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  • history of its creation;
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