This is an analysis of the poem Up, Down, Inside And Out that begins with:
Up, down, inside and out!
That's my relationship I have with God....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc bbXddb aXa Xaee ffXcc bXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,3,4,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111 1101011101 01110000100 111101000010111 1011101001 0100101101101001 1 1111 1111001101001 111011 010001110110 011000101 110 0111011 0010011 1111101111 10101010111001 0111110101 11 111111 0011110100 10101001 110001010101 10101101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Up, Down, Inside And Out;
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