This is an analysis of the poem People Met that begins with:
I have met people who,
asked after their names, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbXdXX AXXcXXb dXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 11011 101011110 0110101001 01100100110 1001100110010101010 1010011100011000000 100110011101100100 111101 11001010110 111011011011 0110011101010 1110010011011100 11001011101100 11110 11101111101110 11011001 1110001111111 01001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; like, name, their, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is 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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