This is an analysis of the poem People Need A Cane that begins with:

Dedicated to stay remaining the same,
As if days to live have not changed......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabbacb bbdbdXd beaXXff bbdbdb FBFXfeB FBFXcB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,6,7,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10000101001 10101111 1110101 010010101 01111 10101001001 00100011101 10111 01000100101 110110 110101 1101011 0011110 01010100111 101011 10011111 011010 0110111 1001 111001 010101 101010101 111010100 10101 111101 10111 010101001 10101 001011101 10101 010101000 01001100 0100101 111111 10101 001011101 10101 010101000 001001 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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 author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of People Need A Cane;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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