This is an analysis of the poem Grounded And Stable that begins with:
People want to keep their lives to live,
Grounded and stable....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDAEXc FCGFHAFAIJ ABCDAEKg FCGFHAFAIJ LFDMXee LFDMee aBAEKkKgKd NBNcNBNe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,8,10,7,6,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101 10110 10111111 1101 101011101 111 01010111 111 10111010 1001 10111 10111010 010111 00010 10111010 00111101 01010110 00100101011 101011101 10110 10111111 1101 101011101 111 110011110 01011 10111010 1001 10111 10111010 010111 00010 10111010 00111101 01010110 00100101011 101011101 0101111010 101011111 10101111 01010 1111011 10111111 101011101 0101111010 101011111 10101111 0101 1111 101010101 10110 101011101 111 110011110 0100010 110011110 010111 110011110 011001 111100 10110 1010100000 101 111100 10110 1010100000 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; people, to, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word people is repeated.
The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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