This is an analysis of the poem If You Handled Your Business that begins with:
Come on and handle it quick.
Your business....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBDECA ecCA ABCBDECAA BA ABCBXecCaaXBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,9,2,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 110 1001111 110 1011011 010 1101100 011 01110101010 1 1101 00110111010 1111001 110 1001111 110 1011011 010 1101100 011 00110111010 10110110 010111111 1111001 110 1001111 110 0 1110101010 1 1101 00110 11010 10110110 010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it's is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ballistic at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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