This is an analysis of the poem Keep Your Focus On Your Happiness that begins with:
Can you stop it.
With a doing to drop....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCC AADE Abfff GXHAIE GXHAIE ABCC AADE GXHAIE E J E J E JXE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,6,6,4,4,6,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 001001 01111 001111 1110 11001 0101110 1011100 1110 01011 1110111 111111 1000 10000001 00100 1000111 01 10000001110 1111111101 10000001 00100 1000111 01 10000001110 1111111101 1110 001001 01111 001111 1110 11001 0101110 1011100 10000001 00100 1000111 01 10000001110 1111111101 111011100 1010100010011 1111011100 1010100010011 1111011100 1010100010011 111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your are repeated.
The author used the same words can, difficult at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word backs at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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