This is an analysis of the poem To Beat Down To Keep Down that begins with:
To beat down to keep down folks,
With intent to provoke them......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXbcdcb dcXXadbbbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 0010010 0000101101 10100111 1000 01110101 0101101 0100010 001001 10101010001 01111010100 1010101001 0111001001 100101001 11111010001 10101010 101101110101 111101111 011110101101 11010101001011 111010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 is repeated.
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