This is an analysis of the poem People Are Not Prepared For This that begins with:
It seems always left kept,
At the demon's best of interests......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXcX badXX ABebc XX afdeg XXfgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,2,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 101010100 00111100 01001010 111111 1010110110 010001001010 01101101001 01010101 1010101101 011111 101010100 001101101 101111 1111010010 110 111011 101111 1111 1111 110101 1101001 101 11 11 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you are repeated.
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- summary of People Are Not Prepared For This;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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