This is an analysis of the poem Pull Up Your Pants that begins with:
You aint gon loiter here.
Hanging around with your friends....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXb aXabcB cddeeB fXbfXf X c X cX dcbggXcgdX c bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,6,1,1,1,2,10,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1001011 10111 011111 11111 1111010111 110110 111101 110110111 111110111 1111 11111100 1101 11101111101 111111101 111011010011 1111 1100011111 111011010101 11101010001 111010111111 011111011 11110111101 11100110 11111011 11011 10101010110 110001 10101 11 01101011 11101 1111001 11110111 001101111 011111 10101100110 1011 1110100 10100 1100011000
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, i, you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word pants at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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