This is an analysis of the poem People Sell Their Souls that begins with:
Impulsive and full of himself.
That is the image of the legacy he leaves....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabccbddedeXbdXdXXXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011001 100100010011 0100 101011 010 10 1111111111 11010100101 110011100100101 10111001001010 101110101 010001010100 11101111011100 0011010100 1101 00101110100 10100100100110 110101001 101110111 10100010 110101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 769
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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