This is an analysis of the poem In Their Own Backyards that begins with:
The demons find themselves...
Laughed at and ridiculed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbXX XbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 111101 11010 011 01111 101011010 11101001 11100 10001 11010 11110100101 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; their, own are repeated.
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- summary of In Their Own Backyards;
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