This is an analysis of the poem People Can'T See Their Misdeeds Diseasing that begins with:

People can't see their misdeeds,
Diseasing....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXbABcAXbA AXXd AXeXece AXbABcAXbA AXDAEcAXbA AXDAEcAXbA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,7,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 100 1 1011101 0010101 1 1011101 100 1 0100010011 1011101 100 0110100101 101011001001 1011101 100 0101011101 11000111101 00100100101 0 01000011011111 1011101 100 1 1011101 0010101 1 1011101 100 1 0100010011 1011101 100 111 11011101 010101 1 1011101 100 1 0100100111 1011101 100 111 11011101 010101 1 1011101 100 1 0100100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • 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 is repeated.

    The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word comes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of People Can'T See Their Misdeeds Diseasing;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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