This is an analysis of the poem You Expect The Motor Slowed that begins with:
You've got my loving running.
And I'm feeling dedicated, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB ABBB bCDC BCDC ABBB XBCDC BCDcXBCDC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,4,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 10101000 0101010 1111010 10101000 0101010 111010 11010101 11 111111010 11 1010101 11 111111010 11 1111010 10101000 0101010 111010 1 1010101 11 111111010 11 1010101 11 111111010 1111 1010101 11 111111010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; go is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words you've, you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of You Expect The Motor Slowed;
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