This is an analysis of the poem Pull It Up From Deep In Your Gut that begins with:

Pull it up from deep in your gut,
What's possible....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABACAdAE ABACAdAE fAGAGhAXg fAAAfAIHJ fAGAGhAIHJXAAAfAAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,9,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011 1100 10101011 011 10101011 010 01 00100100 10101011 1100 10101011 011 10101011 010 01 00100100 1 10101011 101 10101011 101 1 10101011 0010 0100111 1 10101011 10 10101011 1 10101011 1010 111 111111111 1 10101011 101 10101011 101 1 10101011 1010 111 111111111 10101011 10 10101011 1 10101011 10 10101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • 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; it is repeated.

    The author used the same word pull at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words initiative, choose at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Pull It Up From Deep In Your Gut;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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