This is an analysis of the poem Put That Bottle Down that begins with:
When you get sippin'
I get tired of it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb acad baXa CD bbbaX CD AAaCD AAaCD AAaCD AAX C AAAdC AAAdC AAAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,5,2,5,5,5,3,1,5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 111000 1101010 11111 1111 1101 01111 11101 10101010 1011101 1101010 1111 11111101 0111111101 11011101 1111 0111 110111010 01111111 11111101 0111111101 01101110 01111110 1 11011101 11010011101 01101110 01111110 1 11011101 11010011101 01101110 01111110 1 11011101 11010011101 01101110 01111110 100100101101 11111101 1110 1110 11101110 1 11111101 1110 1110 11101110 1 11111101 1110 1110 11101110 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; you, that, if, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, you are repeated.
The author used the same words if, you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words around, down at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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