This is an analysis of the poem Push And Pull that begins with:
It is hard to keep it clean,
When you push and pull....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABCBDB cBXBbBbB XXcc ABABCBDBXBBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101 11111 110101101 11111 11010110111 11111 11111011101 11111 1111110110001 11111 1111010110111 11111 111101010101 11111 1111010110110101 11111 11010 1110111010 1 1011 0010101 11111 110101101 11111 11010110111 11111 11111011101 11111 1111 11111 1111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; when, and, you, push are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word pull at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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