This is an analysis of the poem Who Told Them They Could Fly Their Own Kites? that begins with:
Why on Earth are all those people standing in line.
So patient they seem....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc adefXXddg XdhX fiXehihidX eijX d jfX h XXikX XgfkacdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,4,10,4,1,3,1,5,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101001 11011 111101010010 11010100101001 1101 10101101 1 011101011 111111111 1101 110111111 1111101 110110100 1 110 10101 101111 1101001 11011011101 110 1101 01010101001 0101101101100 1110100110 01101011 101001 11001101 0101010 011110 110100 110101010 10100 1001001010 101 11110100 11100 111110 11111 011101 10110110 011110 1 1101010111 011 010110 111100010 11010100111 11111001011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; own, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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