This is an analysis of the poem People Do Change that begins with:
Oh,
I am in total agreement....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBCD efgfeh aBCD Xabgi gjbifg fgjbhj kXflb jflk bb lXiilX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,5,6,6,5,4,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010010 1011 101000101 11111001 0101010 10100101 01000100 1010011 11111 1 11010010 1011 101000101 110 1111001 11010111 111100101 011110101110 1111 1000101100 111101010 11110101010001 00111100100 0101011 111110 01111001001 00101011001 111101 101101010101 0101011010010 01101010 1001011100100 10101001011 11010101100 11101011 1101 111101010 0100111010 111011 11 0011110111011 1111010011 1101001001 1 1111 1111101010 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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