This is an analysis of the poem My Mind Keeps Movin’ that begins with:
Walk into a restaurant with chicken on my mind
Look at the menu I want roastbeaf and wine...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaXXXc bbaaXXcbbX ddXX aacX aabbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1000101010111 11010111011 010111101111 11110111101 01111010101010 01010100100 00100101111000 101110111 0111110011111 011111010111 11110111111 1111101111001 01111010 01 101111101011001110101 11111111111 1111101011 01111010 110101010101 110101110111 10110001111101111111 01111010 1100010001011 1101110101001 110110110011101011111 01111010 01111111101 1111111101 111111111 11101010101 01111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, wake, up, sometimes, and, might, to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sometimes, might are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word movin' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of My Mind Keeps Movin’;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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