This is an analysis of the poem Offbeat that begins with:
Offbeat but a rhythm keeps,
Doing what it should....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCdAd ABCdA eeabXd AXd ABCdAd ABCdAXdAXdA ABCdAXdAXdA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,3,6,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 10101 00101010 11 10101 11 1110101 10101 00101010 11 10101 10011101 0100110 10011 1 00 11 1110101 100110 11 1110101 10101 00101010 11 10101 11 1110101 10101 00101010 11 10101 100110 11 10101 100110 11 10101 1110101 10101 00101010 11 10101 100110 11 10101 100110 11 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; offbeat is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word offbeat is repeated.
The author used the same word offbeat at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase offbeat connects the lines.
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