This is an analysis of the poem Know This And Keep On Moving that begins with:
People do not love,
The people they deceive....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAB AAB AcDXXEEf EFdAABeAAB AcDeAABAAB EEfEEFE AAB AAB AABXAAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,8,10,10,7,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 010101 1011110 10111 010101 1011110 11000111001 1 11000111001001 1110011 01011111101 110110111011 110101110111 1011010101 10110111011 110110010101 1 10111 010101 1011110 1 10111 010101 1011110 11000111001 1 11000111001001 11 10111 010101 1011110 10111 010101 1011110 110110111011 110101110111 10111011101 11011110101 10110111011 110110010101 11011110101 10111 010101 1011110 10111 010101 1011110 10111 010101 1011110 10111 010101 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; people, you, everyday are 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 word moving at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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