This is an analysis of the poem Of The People And By The People that begins with:
A government of the people,
And by the people......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdbec bXbcbdebeb ABACABAEBD ABACABAEBD ACFACFACFcff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000010 11010 101011010000 1111010001 010010001 11011 01101001101 111010101001 10110100101010 0011111011101 1011001100001 1101000110011000 101001010110110 000101101000111 01010001010100 101001110011 011010011010010 11101011100100 0100011011101011 11000101010010100 001011010 11100101 001011010 11010101 001011010 111100101 001011010 110101 100100100 0101011 001011010 11100101 001011010 11010101 001011010 111100101 001011010 110101 100100100 0101011 001011010 11 11110 001011010 11 11110 001011010 11 11110 1 1110 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to, and, people, mend, what's, broken are repeated.
The author used the same word of 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, broken are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word end at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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