This is an analysis of the poem People Behaving Badly a Concern that begins with:

Aggressive panhandling, public urination, verbal threats,
public nudity and violation of the open container law...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbca cbddX XbXbaeXd edXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110101000101 101001001000100101 10110111 111110 11001111 001011101110 01110101 11010110 01110101100 1010011110101 1010101010010010 10010101011110 111010001110 011001111 0101101010110 1001111001 11101111111 10101 1111100010 11001001 11101111 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length 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 is repeated.

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  • summary of People Behaving Badly a Concern;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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