This is an analysis of the poem These Are Their Minds that begins with:
Believing it okay to pick someone,
As a joke to provoke....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbC CcXcXc CadXXdc cbXaeece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110111 101001 0101101010 11101 11101 101010011010 0010001 0100010010 001001001111 111101 11101 1101100101 01010010101 11111010 0100101010 01001001111 11111 1011 111111001 010011000011010 1100110101 1111101011 110001 110100001011 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words these, no are repeated.
The author used the same word these 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 minds is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word minds at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of These Are Their Minds;
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