This is an analysis of the poem Don'T You Feel Sometimes That People Just Should Hush that begins with:
Don't you feel sometimes that people just should hush.
And give a rest to their mouths and keep them shut....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbaA bBXc ABcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101110111 11010111101 10011100101 11101110111 1111101010111 11011111010111 1010101011111 010000111110100101 11101110111 11011111010111 0010110110101101 1110010100001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don't is repeated.
The author used the same word don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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