This is an analysis of the poem People Will Deal With Emotions that begins with:

What has been done to others to do,
Has been done......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABACdAA eFdgXeHcXdH ABACdAA eFhdHdgH ddgghXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,7,8,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101001 101 01001 00100110 1 110101 10101 0110101 10110111 1 01101011 01111001001 1 0100100101101 011110 1001000 0111011 100100101101 110101001 101 01001 00100110 1 110101 10101 110110101 10110111 10100100101101 0010000111011 0100100101101 0111000010 110101001 100100101101 01111110 10010000110 10011010 1001010 100100100111 001001110111 10010010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, them, they, with are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines do is repeated).

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  • summary of People Will Deal With Emotions;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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