This is an analysis of the poem Sociopaths Stand Back that begins with:
People in the middle,
Enjoy keeping their riddles griddled....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa babA acA dacA cXAaa dbAXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,3,4,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010 011011010 1101011 110101000 011101 1010111001 1110101001101 10101 00010111 10111 1111010111 110101 10111 11110111 10101 01001010111 10111 111100101 01110100 10111 11110101 010100110101 100111 1110101111 10111 1100101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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:
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 nobody at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word boost at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Sociopaths Stand Back;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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