This is an analysis of the poem People In Other People's Lives They Have Never Met that begins with:
Are you that person,
To take what you hear......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba aX aXcaaX XdXdd XXcd XacdbdXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,6,5,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 01111 0011110 11100111 010111 0110101100 0110110010010 1001010 101111101 1110011 100111001001 111 111001 0101011110101 101011 010100101 1110 10010001 1110 0010010101 1 11101 1111010010101 11101 1110101 01110001 1011100 0101111111 0110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; you, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of People In Other People's Lives They Have Never Met;
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- idea of the verse;
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Something Of A Higher Consciousness Knows Everything
- Analysis of When I First Saw You
- Analysis of Self Determination
