This is an analysis of the poem Tricks Are For Kicks that begins with:
There is an emergency,
That has an urgency....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABCDDeX XdcX AABCDDeX DDFA DDFAX AA DDFA AAcDDFAXAAcDDDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,5,2,4,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100 111100 111101 1010101 001111 111101 1010011 0101000 01011 11001 010001 0101000 1010100 111100 111101 1010101 001111 111101 1010011 0101000 1111 001010 1010001 010100 1111 001010 1010001 010100 01 1010100 111100 1111 001010 1010001 010100 1010100 111100 1 1111 001010 1010001 010100 1010100 111100 1 1111 1111 1111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; tricks, for, kicks are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tricks is repeated.
The author used the same words tricks, there 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 kicks is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words hypocrisies, jeopardy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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