This is an analysis of the poem People Do To Do To Pest that begins with:

Go-go-go-go-go-to move on,
From a pecking people do to do to pest....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAC ABAc AdeAcAEAC ABACAEAcXAdAdAc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011 00101010101 11 0010101 11 00101010101 11 0010101 11 0010 110111 11 0110101 1111 00101010111 11 0010101 11111011 00101010101 11 0010101 1111 00101010111 11 0110101 1111 0010 11 0110 11 10111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; go, to are repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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  • summary of People Do To Do To Pest;
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  • history of its creation;
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