This is an analysis of the poem Switch The Gear that begins with:
Kids are dopin' up,
To keep their minds numb....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD ABeD XecfcgXhXfd iXcg ABCD IeIg IeId ABCD CJe CJXae IIIIIIcXcgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,11,4,4,4,4,4,3,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 01111 01000101 10101 11101 01111 1000101 10101 10101 0110101 1011011 010101 1 01111110 100 01011101 0111011100 11001 1011101 0110101 0101110 01101010 10101 11101 01111 01000101 10101 01101 0101110 01101 1101 01101 0101110 01101 110011 11101 01111 01000101 10101 110010101 111 0101010100 110010101 111 0101010 100011 1100 110110101 110110101 01 110110101 110110101 01 101 010100 001 10010 101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
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; to, they, must, be, taught, quick, switch, gear are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same words kids, if, all 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 gear is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word made at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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