This is an analysis of the poem You Made Okay To Do It Your Way that begins with:
You pick up then you kicked the ball.
You pick up then you kicked the ball....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAA ABC Xbd AAAA DcAcA DcAcA ABC DcAcAXAAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,4,5,5,3,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11111101 11111101 11111101 10110101 10100 10101 101 1110101 1010111011 11111101 11111101 11111101 11111101 111101011 0 11101 0 11101 111101011 0 11101 0 11101 10110101 10100 10101 111101011 0 11101 0 11101 11111101 11111101 11111101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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, pick, up, then, kicked, ball, 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 ball is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ball at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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