This is an analysis of the poem Shut It Down that begins with:
Shut it down.
If it has no benefit from it to get....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAcbXdb Aebabbeb edcXdcffdeXAbAbabeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 00111000001 101 0111111 0101010 1111001 0001 010001 101 11 11100 1101 1101 0101110 00101 1010101 10101 1100110 1111110 01111101 111101 1110001 1001 11100101 1110111 1101 101 10010 101 11111101 0101 111010 11101 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The author used the same word shut at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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