This is an analysis of the poem People Who Must that begins with:

I painted on the roof of a skyscraper.
I painted a long while and called it a day's work. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100110 110011110011 01010101101011010111101 100111101111 11010111011 10101010101001 10111011 11101110011 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

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