This is an analysis of the poem Would You Stop It? ! that begins with:

Would you let that love that's happening...
Be for you that fills a need? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCA A ABCA a deba ddd aebb ABXcA Abe Abae ABCA AEAEAEAE ABCECECECEccXECECECEC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,3,4,5,3,4,4,8,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111100 0111101 11110 01100 111001100 111111100 0111101 11110 01100 111001100 01010 11011 1111110 11101010 10010 0 1111 10101110 0110101 11111010 1110101 111111100 0111101 1 1110 01100 111001100 0110101 11010 111111100 011111 1111111100 1001 111111100 0111101 11110 01100 1111001100 100101 1111001100 101101 1111001100 100101 1111001100 101101 111111100 0111101 11110 101101 11110 100101 11110 101101 11110 100101 1110 010 0101 011011101 0101 011011101 0101 011011101 0101 011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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; you, would, let, not, from, happening, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word would is repeated.

    The author used the same word would 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 happening, it are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word happening at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Would You Stop It? !;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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