This is an analysis of the poem Stop Doing What You Do that begins with:
If you haven't done it,
How can you give advice? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXaAbAbccXX dAEAAdAEAA FDGFDGXdAEAAd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010 111101 01000100 011010 00100110 011010 00101 11101010 10101010 010010 001011 1 1011101 01101001 10111 1111 1 1011101 01101001 10111 1111 10111 01010111011 11010101010101 10111 01010111011 11010101010101 1 1011101 01101001 10111 1111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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- summary of Stop Doing What You Do;
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