This is an analysis of the poem For The People And By The People that begins with:

Two million?
Dislocated? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXcXabXdXaXXXadbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110 1000 110 111100101 101 10110010 101101 111010 001010000100 01101001101 1101011010 110111101011 1110100111 10111000111 0111 10111101010 101010100101100 10111 11110000111 111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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  • summary of For The People And By The People;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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