This is an analysis of the poem People Like You Just Don'T Get It that begins with:
People like you,
Just don't get it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB X BAcB CXXa CXXXcdXXdX AB X BAcBaab AB XXBc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,4,4,10,2,1,7,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 1110 111 110010 0110111 1 10111 111 010110 10101011 11001 111 11111 1111101 111011010 11101 01110011111 01100111100 111010100011 01 101101111 1011 1110 111 110010 0110111 1 10111 11011111111 101101011 100100010100 1011 1110 111 110010 11110010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, people are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of People Like You Just Don'T Get It;
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of The Ones Who Now Look Back
