This is an analysis of the poem Road Bumps that begins with:
Only those who keep their minds closed...
Feel penalized....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABc CDEC CDEX FCF FCF GGgF AAFABc GGg CDEC FCF FgFXFXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,3,3,4,6,3,4,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 1101 10111111 1110 0111110 1110001110 001 1110100 100011 1110001110 001 1110100 11101 10101011 1010 10101011 10101011 1010 10101011 11 111 0010101 10101011 10111111 1101 10101011 10111111 1110 0111110 11 111 001011 1110001110 001 1110100 100011 10101011 1010 10101011 10101011 01010 10101011 01 10101011 11010 11101011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, people, stumble, over, road, bumps are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word people is repeated.
The author used the same words some, people 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 bumps is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bumps at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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