This is an analysis of the poem Too Many Desperate People Far From Calm that begins with:
Too many enemies,
Defended against! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ab AA cbdd AEE AEe AAa AEEeeXadcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,4,3,3,3,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100 01001 110100 101010 11010 0101001 1101010 110101 11010101101 11010101101 011 11010101101 11010101101 1 110100 101010 1100010 11010101101 011 11010101101 11 11010101001 11010101 01 11010010 101 11010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; too, many, people, dropping, boom are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word too is repeated.
The author used the same word too 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 boom is repeated).
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