This is an analysis of the poem People Like To Twist Their Words that begins with:
Running away from lives to hide.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaaAabCDE AaaAabCDE XbaXfbfa FAaBAXaFaBgH FAaBAaBgHXAaaAabCDEaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,8,12,21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 10 1 1000101 10 1 100101 0101010001 010111 10010101 10 1 1000101 10 1 100101 0101010001 010111 1010111 10101 1 1010111 011011 0010000 1010111 01 1010111 10001 1 1011001 01101 101010 1 1010111 001101 0101000 00111010 10101001 1010111 10001 1 1011001 01101 010101 0101000 0011010 10101001 10010101 10 1 1000101 10 1 100101 0101010001 010111 10101010 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same words running, people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words lie, control at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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