This is an analysis of the poem Shift Over that begins with:
Shift over and let me slide near you.
I hope you are awake to help me demonstrate, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBD A CBCXE A Xfef A D ABCBD D CdXCc D A CBCXEXAe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,5,1,4,1,1,5,1,5,1,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111 111101011101 1111111111 110011100101 1100101100 110111111 1111 11101010 0010111 11100010 01011010 110111111 11101111 0111100101 0110001001010 1101101101 110111111 101001 110111111 111101011101 1111111111 110011100101 1100101100 101001 11111 10011 1 11111 101010101 101001 110111111 1111 11101010 0010111 11100010 01011010 110111111 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, you, and, to are repeated.
The author used the same word shift at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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