This is an analysis of the poem For No Other Purpose that begins with:
There are those who are into other people's lives,
To voice their opinions about how some folks live....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbXXX cdaXdXXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110010101 011010011111 1001001010 100011011111 010100101 1010111 110111010 110101011 10101010111 11111 0101101010 010010101101 1110110110101 11101010111 110101000 1111101001 1101010 10100101001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they are repeated.
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- summary of For No Other Purpose;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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