This is an analysis of the poem People Will Say They 'Know' that begins with:
We know 'of' those to claim we 'know',
Like we do a kept preference......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacaX XaXad CEXXA CFCcCffaXXf CEXXA CFabfXCcdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,5,11,5,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11101100 1101010 00101100010 1110100111 0010011010101001 01100101 11110111 1111101011 11110111 11010100111011 1111100111 1001111111 0110101 0100100 110110010110 101000101001001 1001111111 0101101001001 1001111111 01010101011100 1001111111 0101101 10110101 11110010100110 111010111 111101011101 1110110100101 1001111111 0110101 0100100 110110010110 101000101001001 1001111111 0101101001001 1101101111 11100111101 101101010111010 1001111111 11 10111 101100111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, to, they, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word would is repeated.
The author used the same words we, people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of People Will Say They 'Know';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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