This is an analysis of the poem Stand On Your Feet that begins with:
I'm not the one to get soaking wet,
By pitiful tears you leave to weep, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abb cADaa cADaa cADAXXXcAD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101101 110011101 00101110111 1 1100 111111 010101 101 1 1100 111111 110101 11001 1 1100 111111 010101101 1111010 11111 1 1100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word cry at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Stand On Your Feet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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