This is an analysis of the poem Few Knew Sanity that begins with:
Sell the people on fear and what they will lose.
Accustomed these people are already......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab XbXXX cXXXcXcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111101 0101101010 0110010010101 1101011101 0111101101 101011000 10110111 11 1 1101 10110110 10101011 1001 0011101 1100 11 100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Few Knew Sanity;
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