This is an analysis of the poem The 'Yes' People that begins with:
What has happened to those,
Who openly expessed their opinions? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa X bac XXX dd XecX ed XfX XXXb fca efX ddd aXddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,3,3,2,4,2,3,4,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 11001001010 111011010100 10010101 101101 0111 1010010010 1101010110 111001001 01100 11 111 1 111001010 110101000 010100 111111010010 1101 1 1101100100100 10111111110 110 111 100111 1010110101 1111010 01001100101100 1110110 1010111 11111111 0111011101 1 1 1 11111101010001001 1 1 1
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, and, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, oh are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase oh connects the lines.
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- summary of The 'Yes' People;
- central theme;
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