This is an analysis of the poem Hey, People that begins with:

Hey, you over there
who are sitting on the shore, happy and laughing, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcbXXXddddXcd AaecfcageeefAagAaeXdA fXfafA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,21,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 111010110110 110100010 110100100 10101010101 1111 0010101111100 11101 11100100110 001010110 1110111 11111 1110010 0101001 11101 1110100101 11110111110 1101010010 11010100101 0101111010 111111001 1101000111 11000101 1100110 0111 1101 111 111011011001 1101111 111 111010001 011101011 10110101110 01001101100101 11101 101001 11101010 10110001001 010111 010101 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words someone, when are repeated.

    The author used the same word hey 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 person is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word there at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase when connects the lines.

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  • summary of Hey, People;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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