This is an analysis of the poem Slop They Dropped that begins with:
Move from a tainting of a game maintained,
To have people painted to sustain a gain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDD cDD ABCDD ECcCDD CDD CDD ECDD FBDD FBDD BCBCBCdCCXECCCCCECCCCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,6,3,3,4,4,4,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001000101 01101000101 00101110101 1010001 00111 011110101 1010001 00111 1001000101 01101000101 00101110101 1010001 00111 1010111001 001010110001 1010001011011 1111110101 1010001 01111 1111110101 1010001 01111 1111110101 1010001 01111 1010111001 001010110001 1010001 01111 0110100101 01101000101 0010001 01111 0110100101 01101000101 0010001 01111 1010100101 110101010111 1010100101 110101010111 1010100101 110101010111 1010110101 111 111 1010111001 111 111 11110110001 111 111 1010111001 111 111 11110110001 111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; up, to, other, people, mopping, slop, they, dropped are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word slop is repeated.
The author used the same words those, it's 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 dropped is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words nonstop, dropped at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase slop connects the lines.
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