This is an analysis of the poem Exoneration that begins with:
When men at candidacy don't connive,
From that suspicion if their friends would free 'em,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111000101 01010011110 0111011011 10010000010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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