This is an analysis of the poem Stop That Copying Of Me That You Do that begins with:

Stop your copping on my duty,
That your are trying to scoop....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCc ABAD EEEFc EEdC EEEFc EEdC ABCc ABADXEEEFc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,5,4,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110 1111001 111000101 1 11101110 1111001 01110110 10101 11110 1110101 11110 1110101 1 11110 1110101 1 1110001111 11110 1110101 11110 1110101 1 11110 1110101 1 1110001111 11101110 1111001 111000101 1 11101110 1111001 01110110 10101 11110 1110101 11110 1110101 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • 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; your, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word stop is repeated.

    The author used the same words stop, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Stop That Copying Of Me That You Do;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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