This is an analysis of the poem Too Many Are In The Business Of Others that begins with:
Too many are in the business of others.
And very few possess a key, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aba Aca ABdc XeabaX bX XXXcXda ABaeeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,6,2,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010010 11010101 010101 11010010010 110101001010 111111010 11010010010 1111010111 111001010 01010000101010 11 0100100011010 11110100100101 10101001 011101111 010111010101 1110101 11110110011 111111001011 110 001101000010101 011110101111 0110100001011001 01110100101101 010111110110101 11010010010 1111010111 10101010101 101001110100 10100100011010 110010111 0100110101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, i are repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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