This is an analysis of the poem People And Their Situations Do Change that begins with:
If it is true you knew,
How I felt in those times......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abacbdaca AXeaf aaff dAegge cgh X IGG XhXXbX X IGGXX fXgg JfghahhXGJf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,4,6,3,1,3,6,1,5,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000111 111011 101 01110 1101001 11 0001 1100100 101011 000111 110100111 101111111 1111101 101111 001111 111101 1110010 01100011 1 000111 10101111 111100101 00101 11010001111 010101100 10101 001 111101010 110111010 101 11 1110111111 101001 11101001 1111011111 001010100100 0101001010 111101010 110111010 101 11 1101001 111000111 1111101101 001001110 1011 01110111 1011101011 01 110001 111000111001 1101 1010010101 0011101 101 1011101011 01
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word if 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 knew is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of People And Their Situations Do Change;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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