This is an analysis of the poem Who Are They that begins with:
Who are they,
Who don't pay street dues....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEAFGBD AhAbhXdbXXXABCDEAFGBD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 11111 0111010 1111 11011 1111 010111011 0010110101 10010 101001 111 1001011 1111 01011001 1110101010 0110011 11111110 101010001 00100111 01101010 111 11111 0111010 1111 11011 1111 010111011 0010110101 10010 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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