This is an analysis of the poem People Can Be Sold Anything that begins with:
How can one survive,
On lies to tell and alibis......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDA ABCDA CBX aefbb CBGFdDX HCHEHC ABCDA CBGFdDX HCHEHCXHcHeHeHc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,5,7,6,5,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 11011101 01 010 1011001 11101 11011101 01 010 1011001 101111 11110101 110101110 11101 11001 01 01 110111 101111 11110101 11010111 01010101 01 11 010011100 10101101 11111111 10101101 111101010 10101101 11111111 11101 11011101 01 010 1011001 101111 11110101 11010111 01010101 01 11 010011100 10101101 11111111 10101101 111101010 10101101 11111111 10101101 11111111 10101101 111111010 10101101 010010010 10101101 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- 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; to, as are repeated.
The author used the same words how, people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words connive, up at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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