This is an analysis of the poem For Them It's Automatic that begins with:
People lie and they like it...
Just that way....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAab cXAbAb CbdABD AbDABD CDDEDXDEDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,6,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 111 1011010 101 01 000111011001 11111010010010 1011110 101 1011010 10101 00111011001 1111101010001 111101011001010 1011110 111 1101011001010 1011110 101 1101011001010 1011110 111 1101011001010 00111011001 1101011001010 10111 1001 11101011001010 10111 1001 11101011001010 11101011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines automatic is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word automatic at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of For Them It's Automatic;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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