This is an analysis of the poem Those Kept On The Bottom Relate that begins with:
Those kept on the bottom keep keeping on.
Those kept on the bottom keep keeping on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABc bdeaedecca CCCBcXAAABc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101101 1110101101 1110101101 111010 01 101010 101001 0 101110 0 101011 0 1001101 1010101 0111011 11101001 11101001 11101001 111010 01 1110101101 1110101101 1110101101 111010 01
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, those, kept, bottom, keep, keeping, relate are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word those is repeated.
The author used the same word those at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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