This is an analysis of the poem Nip This In The Bud And Split that begins with:
Let's take a 'trip' over the border.
And spread our wings quick, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEFgABCDEF XhhgiXid h HJI HJI HJI g ABCDEFXHJIIGIGIGGGI
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,8,1,3,3,3,1,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110010 11111 001001 010111001 01 11 1 110110010 11111 001001 010111001 01 11 1111010101 01101010 10101001 1 1111100101 11110010 111001 0010111 011 1110101011 10011 1001 1110101011 10011 1001 1110101011 10011 1001 11110101 110110010 11111 001001 010111001 01 11 1110101011 10011 1001 1000111 111 1000111 111 1000111 111 10001 10001 1000111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, ready, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, ready, nip are repeated.
The author used the same word clipped 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 bud is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word quit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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