This is an analysis of the poem You Can Beat It that begins with:
You can beat it.
The moment you know it's not needed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACADCAXAaBC ABACADCBCAAEA AAEA XXAb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 010110110 1110 01000111 1110 1110110 1110100 1110 01001101 1110 010101010 0011101 0010100 1110 010110110 1110 01000111 1110 1110110 1110100 0011101 0010100 1110 00111010 1010101 1110 1110 00111010 1010101 1110 1111001101 01 1110 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, it, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you 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 it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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