This is an analysis of the poem These People Are Never The First that begins with:
Too often...
Those who use common sense, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcccaa BB adcaefbcX BB eeXfdgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,9,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 111101 11011001 01 10100101 10111010101001 10111101011101 01010010111100 0010100101010 111110011010 000100101 0100101 10110111010 11 001100 11110101 111011001 011101 01010010111100 0010100101010 1011101 11110100101 111001 100011110001 1 1010 011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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