This is an analysis of the poem If You Can'T Dig Me that begins with:
Do them not me like your enemy.
To lock me tight to stop the very breath I breathe! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAB Accd AdXd ABAB XcEXEc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111100 011101010111 101111100 011101010111 011100 010101 110011 010111 011100 11101 0101110 10111 101111100 011101010111 101111100 011101010111 010111 10111 01111 111101 01111 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, to are repeated.
The author used the same word i'm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of If You Can'T Dig Me;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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