This is an analysis of the poem Those Smart Young People that begins with:
They scare alot.
Those smart young people....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCA ABXaa Defc DEGHIj KCFCKAA ABCA DEGHIj KCFCKAA jj KCFCKAAgcc KCFCKAAcfcXgfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,6,7,4,6,7,2,10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 11110 11011111 11011 1101 11110 101010000 01010111 11111111 11 10011110 101110 001101 11 11011110 1110011 01110101 11111001 0 101110 1101111 101010 1101111 100010 1000001 1011101 1101 11110 11011111 11011 11 11011110 1110011 01110101 11111001 0 101110 1101111 101010 1101111 100010 1000001 1011101 11011101 11110111 101110 1101111 101010 1101111 100010 1000001 1011101 1010111 010 010 101110 1101111 101010 1101111 100010 1000001 1011101 1 1100 101 1 0100 101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word repeated is repeated.
The author used the same words they, and, sacrifice at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase repeated connects the lines.
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