This is an analysis of the poem If The Kids Don'T Buy Into It that begins with:
An effort is being made,
To clean up the foul language....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcdX AXddef cbcbXggf egdfcbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 0110110 0110101 01101010 10100 010100 1100101 0010100 11010100 111000100 1001010001 10111001100100 110010001 11010010 110011001010 0100101011001 111110010100101 1011010101000100010 111100100 111111 110111001 1101100110000111 00100 101110010 11101011010 101011111 100111000 11 10
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, more, to, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word an at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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