This is an analysis of the poem Getting Down And Funky, Staying Low And Earthy that begins with:
The first time I made attempts,
To be mature and endure those who weren't....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefXbghXXaf aff baedf XcbfbggXhbXdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,3,5,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111101 00011011110 01101 01010 101011 01101111 00100100 11110101 0010000 10101101110 11 110 110101011 1111110101 11010111001 0101000111 100110101 0101101000100 11001101010011 11011001001101 111010011010010 01111010001 1101110111101 101100011001 111101110101 1110101110 10110101 101110 101110 1000101011100010 0101010100010100 001010010001101 110110111101 00101010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 34
- 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; to is repeated.
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