This is an analysis of the poem Why Don'T You Stop that begins with:
Stop. Stop.
Why don't you, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABAc ABABAd EcDA EcDA AAAa EcDA EcDAA EcDAFfFf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,4,4,4,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 111 11 111 11 101010 11 111 11 111 11 1010100 11111010 1 10101 01101 11111010 1 10101 01101 11111 11111 11111 101010001101 11111010 1 10101 01101 11111010 1 10101 01101 01101 11111010 1 10101 01101 11110 110 11110 11
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (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; stop, why, you, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, to are repeated.
The author used the same words stop, why 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 stop, lip, it are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word lip at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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