This is an analysis of the poem Old Tires that begins with:
Update your riding,
On old tires....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdc efefe ghbhd bgaXX eBIJeBIXe eBef GEK eBIJeBXGEKeB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,9,4,3,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110 1110 110111 1110 010101 01110001 111001 111101 110101 110111 101011 01101 100001010 1001 01101110 101011 10101 10111010 101010 01101 01 1101110 010001 1111010 01 1101110 010001 1111100 101 01 1101110 01 111001 10 111 1010111 01 1101110 010001 1111010 01 1101110 10 111 1010111 01 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, old are repeated.
The author used the same words update, people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word tires at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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