This is an analysis of the poem Just To Get Known that begins with:
Everybody lives a life that goes through changes.
Even strangers....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab CAB CDECD CDECD BBB BBB CDECD CAB XBBBXBBBXBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,5,5,3,3,5,3,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111110 1010 101010111001 1101010011101 101 10010110011 10101110 101 11 10101110 101 10101110 101 11 10101110 101 10101110101001 010101010 10101110101011 10101110101001 010101010 10101110101011 10101110 101 11 10101110 101 1101010011101 101 10010110011 10 10101110101001 010101010 10101110101011 10 10101110101001 010101010 10101110101011 10 10101110101001 010101010 10101110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; everybody, to, just, people, like, strut, for, other, get 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.
The poet repeated the same words flaunt, known at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Just To Get Known;
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