This is an analysis of the poem It's Summer And The People Choose To Feel Loose that begins with:

Keep it up and finger poppin'.
Until the people say they've had quite enough....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAXXXBC DDE XAX DX DXBCXF DDEXX DXX DXX DXX DXF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,3,2,6,5,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 01010111101 110111010 1011110101 10111010 1101 10111010 01010101011 01010011001 1101010001011 10111010 01010111101 110111010 01010101011 10111010 01010011001 10111010 1101 10111010 10111010 11101010 01010101011 01010011001 1101010001011 10111010 10111010 01010101011 10111010 10111010 01010101011 10111010 10111010 01010101011 10111010 10111010 01010101011 10111010 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; up, and, keep, it, finger, poppin' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word keep is repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines poppin' is repeated).

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of It's Summer And The People Choose To Feel Loose;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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