This is an analysis of the poem Don’t Be Like Those Who Ask For Everything that begins with:
Don’t be like those who ask for everything:
praise, a blurb, a free ride in my rented...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXbabXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111101 1010110110 10111110111010 101001 0111111111 0010101 1011 010100 101010 001101 101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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