This is an analysis of the poem They Are The Ones That Others Envy that begins with:
I have issues with people who leave people...
Begging on the streets with nothing to eat....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc ddae BBEFG XcaX bBEFG FGFGFGFG BFGXBFGFGFG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,5,8,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101110 1010101001 1110111101010 11101011101 11010110111 1111011001 11110101001 110010110101 111000101110 10111010010 1110111010111 1101 110111010 1101011110 11010011010 1101011111 1110101011101 1111000101110 10111010010 1110111010111 1101 110111010 101 110111010 1101 110111010 101 110111010 1101 110111010 111000101110 1101 110111010 111000101110 1101 110111010 1101 110111010 1101 110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, to, who, them, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, they are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word envy at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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