This is an analysis of the poem People Will Claim They Do Not Know that begins with:
People refuse to believe,
They get back what others receive....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABC ddedXd FgFeg AABCeFedcge fXfXffd FFDFFXFFDFF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,5,11,7,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001 11111001 100101 0010011 1010001 011001100 1 0110101 1100010 1010001100 10011111 1110101 10011111 1010011 0001010 1001001 11111001 100101 0010011 1 10011111 10100111 101010011 001001100 11010001 1110011 1100101 01010101 1100101 011011011 1 100101 010011 10011111 11 11010 10011111 11 10011111 11 11010 10011111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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 do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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