This is an analysis of the poem Many People Hate To Make A Ripple that begins with:
Not many people beating on their own drum.
Bumma dum bum....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAAAA B AA B AA aAA XAA B AA B AA AAAAAA B AA B AA B AA B AA XB AAXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,2,1,2,3,3,1,2,1,2,6,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101111 1011 1011 11010101011 1011 1011 11010101010 1011 1011 1010101010 1011 1011 10101101101 1011 1011 0100110111011 1011 1011 11010101010 1011 1011 1010101010 1011 1011 11010101111 1011 1011 11010101011 1011 1011 11010101010 1011 1011 11010101010 1011 1011 1010101010 1011 1011 1010101010 1011 1011 101010101000101 1010101010 1011 1011 1010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 49
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; bumma, dum, bum are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bumma, many are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bum is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bum at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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