This is an analysis of the poem You Keep Your Lips And What's Behind Them Zipped that begins with:
You keep your lips and what's behind them zipped.
No explanation do you give for this....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaCC bbbCC aXabCCCC ABaCCCCCcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 1101011110 1110110101010 11101 1101 110101110011 111010000101 111111001011 11101 1101 11111101000 11101011010 11011110 1111001 11101 1101 11101 00111 1111110101 1101011110 0111010101101 11101 1101 11101 00111 1101 11101 0110110001 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, you're, bottled, up are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and are 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 up is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word up at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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