This is an analysis of the poem People Evil Leave A Permanent Stain that begins with:
People evil leave a permanent stain...
Felt like nothing other....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACADDA AcAD EFXXgDeD EFgDeD ABACADDA EFgDeD EFgDeD AXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,6,8,6,6,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101001 111010 1010101001 10100010 1010101001 1001 00101010 010101 1010101001 10100010 1010101001 1001 1110010 0011001 1110001 00011111 1 10101 1 10101 1110010 0011001 1 10101 1 10101 1010101001 111010 1010101001 10100010 1010101001 1001 00101010 010101 1110010 0011001 1 10101 1 10101 1110010 0011001 1 10101 1 10101 1010101001 1010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; we, that, evil are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word people is repeated.
The author used the same words people, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stain is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words leaves, stain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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