This is an analysis of the poem Shut The Rut Up that begins with:
Shut the rut up.
Why stay stuck in it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCD aXbc eeXXccXXABCCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 11100 100001 0001 11101000 1111 100101 11101000 10110101 11001111 0100100011 111101110011 1010101010001 1111110100001 01100101 0100011010 1011 11100 100001 0001 11101000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, you are 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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