This is an analysis of the poem Staging An Escape that begins with:
Boom baby doom bah doom.
Boom baby doom bah doom....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAA AAAAA AAAAA BCDEFgDH AAAA AAAAA AAAAA BCDEFgDHIAAAAAIAAIAAIX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,8,4,5,5,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 110111 110111 110111 1011111 1011111 1011111 110111 110111 1011111 1011111 1011111 110111 110111 11 11 010 0101010 01 11 010 110101 110111 110111 110111 110111 1011111 1011111 1011111 110111 110111 1011111 1011111 1011111 110111 110111 11 11 010 0101010 01 11 010 110101 01 10111 110111 110111 110111 1101 01 10111 1101 01 10111 1101 01 1
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; doom, boom, baby, bah are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words boom, baby are repeated.
The author used the same word baby 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 doom is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word doom at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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