This is an analysis of People by Jean Toomer.

To those fixed on white,
White is white,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXcbbadX dbcbccdXbdd
  • Stanza lengths: 12,11,
  • Metre: 01111 101 01111 0001 1101 1010 101111 0010101 1001 01101 11010101 1111 111011 111001 00010010 1111101 1101 1110101 00101 1100111 1101 11110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

white, or

Anaphora

are

Epiphora

white

Anadiplosis

white