This is an analysis of the poem Pick Yourself Up Off The Bottom that begins with:
Doo-doo-doo-doo do...Bedoo.
Bedoobe doo-bee-do...Be-dooooo-beeeeahhh....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXAAXXAAAAabab XXXXc c XXA XXAAXXAAAAXXAAAAAA AAAAAAAA XXAXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,5,1,3,18,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100 1011111 11 111011010 1111100 1011111 11 111011010 111 111011010 11001001 011011 11101011 001 11001000 111111 1111001 001011 01111 101101101 1111100 1011111 11 1111100 1011111 11 111011010 1111100 1011111 11 111011010 11 111011010 1111100 1011111 11 111011010 111 111011010 111 11011010 111 111011010 111 111011010 11 11011010 11 111011010 11111100 1011111 11 101010100 11011010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; doo, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word doo at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word bottom at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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