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

No people are uninteresting.
Their fate is like the chronicle of planets....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX bc dda cc cc ece fdX age fX fb fa XXXgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,2,2,3,3,3,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100 11010100010 1000011100 11000100010 1001100100 1001010100 0100010100 0101010 1011110001 101111001 1110 0101111101 0111111 0101 1111110 1101010100 110001 1111010110 1010011011 110111100 1111100110 0101001011 100010101 10010 111110 0101010 110110011 01011101010 1100101101 1110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; obscurity, in, and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines obscurity, minute are repeated).

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

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  • summary of People;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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