This is an analysis of the poem Their Closest Relatives that begins with:
People hypnotized and transfixed,
Have grown more accustomed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCC dXbbcd becefX aXXgdc bCCacheg bhh caaifiic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,6,8,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101 111010 0110010 11010010010101 101001 101 101001001 0110010 011 01 10111001 010111010 1111 101111010 00101010 1111111 1011010001 111100 11110001 11001 10010001000 11100101011 10111010 0110010 11010010010101 1 110010110100 0101 11010 101111111 10110001010 0010101111110 11010001010 1011001010 10100101101 111100 101101001 10 101010001 1011011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word people is repeated.
The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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