This is an analysis of the poem The Terrible People that begins with:
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it,
And I wish I could...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbXccXdddeeffggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111101010101101111110110 11111010101110000101010101101010100100010 11111001010111111010 1111111110011010 1110111010 0101001010 1001000100100 101101110001111011010 1100101010 1010011100010 1010100111010 11101100010111111101010110 110100100 1101000100 1010010 1101010001011110 01010010010100010 111011000110010101110110110010 010010010001101011011 1001010101011000111 100111010111011101010 111010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1499
- Average number of words per stanza: 275
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, i, it, people, to, and, want, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, from are repeated).
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