This is an analysis of the poem The People, Yes that begins with:
Lincoln?
He was a mystery in smoke and flags...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcXddXebXdce cb aXcX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1101000111 1010011001 100101000100 10010100 001010101010 10010000101 1010010111 1001010101 10010101010 101101001010 1110010101 10011010011 1111110101 01101001100 1011010 101110 1111001001 010110 111101101 1100111100 11001 111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yes, to, of, people are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words yes, no, i are repeated.
The author used the same word lincoln 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 flags is repeated).
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- summary of The People, Yes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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