This is an analysis of the poem Like Most People Evil that begins with:
During their last thrill ride aboard evil,
Those caught up in their wicked ways......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXAcAdcb Abecdeabbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110110 11101101 0101 01001000001 111010 101010101 111010 10111011 0101101001 110111011 1011110110 101001001010 110110100101 1101010100 010111 01001 1111010 111001001101 00010000101110 1110100010111 0100010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; they, their, to are repeated.
The author used the same word during at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Like Most People Evil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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