This is an analysis of the poem Keep It Positive that begins with:
Keep it positive.
No matter if a negative pesters....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACD ABACe FgbHIBgg aFafHIBD EacEaD HIBDaaEabhijjdEaEa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,8,6,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100 1100010010 10100 110111010 0111011010 10100 1100010010 10100 110111010 0111010010 100110101 10011001 111010101 011 011 011011101 1010101 01100110101 1111100 100110101 11111100 110110111 011 011 011011101 1010111 10 100 011101001010 10 100 0111011010 011 011 011011101 1010111 110100 1010100 10 100 1101100 01 01 1101110111 0 11011101 10 100 10 100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; to, without, it, keep, positive are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words without, keep, with are repeated.
The author used the same word keep 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 positive is repeated).
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