This is an analysis of the poem Why Can'T You Keep It Celebrated? that begins with:
What's keeping you from being grateful for your blessings?
And......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCbDDEDFDBDF AbCbDDEDFDBDF DGbDB DGbDB AbCbDEDFDBDF DGbDBXDGbDB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,5,5,12,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010101110 1 110101011001 1 110101010111 11 1111 11 1101 11 1111 11 110101 1101010101110 1 110101011001 1 110101010111 11 1111 11 1101 11 1111 11 110101 11 001 1 11 111101010 11 001 1 11 111101010 1101010101110 1 110101011001 1 11 1111 11 1101 11 1111 11 110101 11 001 1 11 111101010 11 001 1 11 111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; and, you, faith, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The author used the same words what's, that 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 faith is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words wrong, celebrated at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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