This is an analysis of the poem Bitter People that begins with:
A bitter people,
Come together like birds of a feather......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ADbX ABCADXX ABC ADB ADBB ADBBXADB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,7,3,3,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 1010110010 0110111 11010 111011110100 0010110 11010 01010 1010110010 0110111 11010 111011110100 001011 11001010 01010 1010110010 0110111 11010 111011110100 001011001110 11010 111011110100 001011001110 0100111010 11010 111011110100 001011001110 0100111010 11010 111011110100 001011001110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; bitter is repeated.
The author used the same words a, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word better at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Bitter People;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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