This is an analysis of the poem Just To Be 'Cool' Hip And With It that begins with:

If I was born,
From a love shared and meant......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDEA AADBX Xdbfbgb ABCDEA AADBbX cahdgXX dXbgXdfbhbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,7,6,6,7,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111 001111 110101 1100110110 110101 010100010 0111 0011101 111010 10001010 01100111 101011101 111101 1000110111 10010101101 0110110111 10101 11001001 0111 001111 110101 1100110110 110101 010100010 0111 0011101 111010 10001010 00110111 010101111 011001011 101011000010 1101110 011001101001 111001110111 11110111111 11101010010011 1011101010101 10101101111011 10011100 11111111100 1 01101111001 11101011001101 0110101110 011100111 10111001001 11111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, my are repeated.

    The author used the same words if, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Just To Be 'Cool' Hip And With It;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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