This is an analysis of the poem Keep It Proper that begins with:
Keep it proper!
You never know on you who might peep....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcBABdB bcaBEBABCB cXXX bcaBEBaBCB cABcABadffb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,4,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 110111111 1110101 110111111 01111010 110111111 0100111001 110111111 1 0 10 110111111 010111001 110111111 01111010 110111111 1010101001 110111111 10101010 101 1010101111 0010101010101 1 0 10 110111111 010111001 110111111 101111010 110111111 1010101001 110111111 01 111010 110111111 1001 111010 110111111 1001111010 110001101 1101 11 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, that, it 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.
The poet repeated the same word peep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Keep It Proper;
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