This is an analysis of the poem Looking At The Many People that begins with:
Looking at the many people.
Looking at the many people, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAbAX aBAA CACA CADD AABAA ABAA CACA CADD AADD AADD AADDXADADADADD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 10101010 10010111 01010 0010001 101010 1010111 01010 10101010 0101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 01011100 10111101 10101010 10101010 1010111 01010 10101010 10101010 1010111 01010 10101010 0101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 10101010 01011100 10111101 10101010 10101010 01011100 10111101 10101010 10101010 01011100 10111101 10101010 10101010 01011100 10111101 10101010 01011100 10101010 01011100 10101010 01011100 10101010 01011100 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 55
- 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; many, people, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word looking is repeated.
The author used the same word looking at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines people is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words people, sense at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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