This is an analysis of the poem People At Night that begins with:
A night that cuts between you and you
and you and you and you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXbddXXdX dbefccX fdXeXXebXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,7,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101111 111111 111010101110 10111 111111010 101101110 00110111 1110101 11100100101 111111011 11100101011 1111010 1101010101 111110 1110001 100101110 110111011 100 11111 01101101000 1110101 111101 101111101 111101100 11110011111 1111011 11111010 11111 101000 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 912
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 90 (very long 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, you, sp, nb, nbs, p are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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