This is an analysis of the poem Sans People that begins with:
Will you let me have a glimpse of people?
People on the streets? People sauntering by, people smiling....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcddbaXd XXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111101010 101011010011010 1001001011 10010111001 1001011 1011001001010 1010110001111 1110101000010010 011110100 1101100010 1101100010100101 1010110101010110 1011111 10101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; people, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word people is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase people connects the lines.
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