This is an analysis of the poem A Corner People Thing that begins with:
On the streets in our hometowns
They stand together......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcD bbbcD EAAA bbXcD EAAA aaeXeA eXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,5,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 11010 11101010 100111110 1 00101 11010 11010 1111010 1 00101 1101010 1010 10111100 1010111 0101010111010 10111001010 11110110110 1 00101 1101010 1010 10111100 1010111 100101101 11111111 10110110101 0101011010000 01 1010111 1110101101 100011101100 01101010011001 1110010110001 010100100010 10001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; their is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines together is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words love, hometowns at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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