This is an analysis of the poem Keep That Beat Just Heated that begins with:
You keep that conga beat strickly in the rhythm.
You keep that conga beat heat, rhythmically....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACCC BACCc DEFb GHI ABACCC DEFbFAB DEFbFAB DEGHI BCCBCC DEGHIXCCDECCDECCDECCc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,3,6,7,7,5,6,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101100010 1111011100 11111101010101 1111110 101110 101010 1111011100 11111101010101 1111110 101110 101010011001 11110 00111010 1111011 100 110011111 00110110 101101 111101100010 1111011100 11111101010101 1111110 101110 101010 11110 00111010 1111011 100 111101 100010 1111011100 11110 00111010 1111011 100 111101 100010 1111011100 11110 00111010 110011111 00110110 101101 1111011100 1111110 101010 1111011100 1111110 101010 11110 00111010 110011111 00110110 101101 1111110 101010 11110 00111010 1111110 101010 11110 00111010 1111110 101010 11110 00111010 1111110 101010 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; that, beat, keep, it, and, just, heated are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and, keep are repeated.
The author used the same words you, give 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 heated is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word rhythmically at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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