This is an analysis of the poem Few People Say What They Mean that begins with:
No one yet has been banned,
From thoughts to have....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcda XXcee dXXfbXcecfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 0101 11000101 110101 1011101 1111001 010 11011101 0101011 1001 01011 1000111 110111001 010101101 0111 111 110001011 11 1101111 001 1011101 101 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Few People Say What They Mean;
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- history of its creation;
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