This is an analysis of the poem Keep It Real And Often Stimulated that begins with:

You want to keep it real and often stimulated.
No need to keep it on the downlow and degraded....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAABA AAABA ACACACBA Xaa DEA ACccXDEA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,3,3,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011101010 1101010101010 1101011011010 111101011101 11 1101011101010 1101010101010 1101011011010 111101011101 11 1101011101010 11 1101010101010 11 1101011011010 01 111101011101 11 101011101011 01110101 1010101 10101001001 0111011101 00101010001001 1101011011010 01 01001 101001 10101001001 0111011101 00101010001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • 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; you, to, and, with, love are repeated.

    The author used the same words you, keeping 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 love is repeated).

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

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  • summary of Keep It Real And Often Stimulated;
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  • history of its creation;
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