This is an analysis of the poem When People Feed On Their Hypocrisies that begins with:
With violence marketed in a society that bleeds...
Why are the people, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaaaaXcdee XdBcXd fgXg XacfaXed cdda gdgfgfaX XXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,6,4,8,4,8,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010000010011 11010 100101 0101110101 1001010100 111001001 11010100 110101 11010010111 1001001 11101001 0100110 110101 11010 011010010 010100 001111110 1010010 01101010101 1010010 001010101 1101111000 1010011 11110111 1111010100 101110101 01001101111 11011 001000001 1101001010 01010 111010 0010101 101010111 010101010 101011001001 00100100 1010010 111001 010010011 1010101001100 111101 10001001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, their are repeated.
The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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- Analysis of Willing Victims
- Analysis of No Need To Cast Woeful Eyes
