This is an analysis of the poem People Do Like To Mock A Lot that begins with:
To keep a lock and key on a valued life,
With a doing unconcerned, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabCXdX eXaCfafdb Xaf eaccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011110101 0010101 1101111101 01110 011010 11101 1101001001 1001001001010 000101010 000100000010 101011 011010 1011011101 10110101 11101101 0010010100 0011011 1 001110100 1010101 110 11101 1100100010 11100010 10101101000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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:
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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of People Do Like To Mock A Lot;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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