This is an analysis of the poem People that begins with:
To those fixed on white,
White is white,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXcbbadX dbcbccdXbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 101 01111 0001 1101 1010 101111 0010101 1001 01101 11010101 1111 111011 111001 00010010 1111101 1101 1110101 00101 1100111 1101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; white, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word are is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines white is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase white connects the lines.
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- summary of People;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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