This is an analysis of the poem Rob And Cop that begins with:
People are fed to want,
With a doing of nothing....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABX CAX BbabaX DXDXXdXdXX BDBd eFeD BDeFeDeFeD ABX CAXeDeFeXeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,10,4,4,10,3,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 0010010 1 1101101 10101 1 1011011010 01111010 010111001 110001010 011111101 1 1010101010111 1 1010101010111 1 101010101 0010010111 01111111 1111 1001 1 1011011010 110111010111 1011011010 110101010111 101 111010101 101 111010111 1011011010 110111010111 101 111010101 101 10110111 101 111010101 101 111010111 101101 0010010 1 1101101 10101 1 101101 10110111 101 111010101 101 1 101 11 1010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word everyday at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words ', cop at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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