This is an analysis of the poem Kneepads that begins with:
If you want to crawl
Buy you some kneepads, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXBCD BEX XbX eXbX AXBCD BEX BEX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,3,4,5,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 11110 00111 10101111 00111110 01101001001 111001 1010 11010100 1011 110101100 11101000100 101001 01011101 01001010 01101 11110 00111 10101111 00111110 01101001001 111001 1010 01101001001 111001 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, of, to, with are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word kneepads at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Kneepads;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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