This is an analysis of the poem Hip Hop It Really Rocks that begins with:

Botched up and rocked by hip hop...
That has drowned out all the pop, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABABCB aAXbdXb AEAEBEDE AABABCB AEAEBEDE AEAEBEDEXbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,8,7,8,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 1111101 10100101 111111011 1011 001010 111101 1 1111111 0110011101 00101 10101111 111010 1001000101 111111 00010101 111111 00010101 111101 10010101 11010101 100101 1111111 1111101 10100101 111111011 1011 001010 111101 111111 00010101 111111 00010101 111101 10010101 11010101 100101 111111 00010101 111111 00010101 111101 10010101 11010101 100101 11111101 00010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hip, hop are repeated.

    The author used the same word hip at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Hip Hop It Really Rocks;
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