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

Some people fleeing some other people.
In some country under the sun ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb cbd be ccc ffghe gXca eibXdh X XXX XXX XX XXX XeXXX XXXX iXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,3,5,4,6,1,3,3,2,3,5,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011010 01101001 111 1101101101 111101 1001101101010 111110110 01000100011001 101100011010 100010110111010 101111010 0100111011 101110 100101010 0101110111011101 1010110011 101010011010 110100 11010110 10101011 1010101010111 110101010111 01101101010 1001 1010110001001 1001101 101 10110010110010 1001010110 1100100 1001110110 101010101 1001001110110 1110101100 1101111111 100111010100 010010101010100 110101010 1101011110 111101 1111 1001010110110 10011001100 10001101000 1010100 0110100 1101110110 11110010111 11110010101 10010100110010100 10111 111110 11000111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, somebody's, and, czyje are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word jacy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Some People;
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