This is an analysis of the poem Just Roll On Your Back that begins with:
When you get up in the morning,
Just roll on your back....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBBABCDE fABBBABCDE GFFF GFFF ABBBABCDE db ABBBABCDE XcXABBBABCDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,4,4,9,2,9,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010 11111 1111 1111 111110010 11111 1111011 1111 101 1 11110010 11111 1111 1111 111110010 11111 1111011 1111 101 110111010 11010 011111 11010 110111010 11010 011111 11010 11110010 11111 1111 1111 111110010 11111 1111011 1111 101 1011011111 10010101 11110010 11111 1111 1111 111110010 11111 1111011 1111 101 1110110 110001 111110010 11111 1111 1111 111110010 11111 1111011 1111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; roll, on, your, back, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word roll is repeated.
The author used the same word you'll 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 back is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words relax, good at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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