This is an analysis of the poem Stop! Defending Yourself that begins with:
Stop!
Defending yourself, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCCacdd Xdd cXXaBddaBCCXaBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01010 110111111 101 1101 1101011 0010111 1111101 11101111 1101 110001 11101001101 1111010 11110100 11 01010 0111110 01011011 1 01010 110111111 101 1 01010 110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, and are repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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