This is an analysis of the poem It Ain'T What You Do, It's What It Does To You that begins with:
I have not bummed across America
with only a dollar to spare, one pair...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX Xbbc cdaX XecdXebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010100 0100100111 0101010101 111010110 1111010101 1110000101 1111011101 0101010111 1110111101 1111111010 1111111010 1010101011 1111001011 1110100111 11101001001 1011011011 1111010001 1010010010 1101111101 1010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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