This is an analysis of the poem On The Critical Attitude that begins with:
The critical attitude
Strikes many people as unfruitful...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcaXb XXXbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101 110101100 10011101 0100011010 1100101100101 010010101110101 111001010 1000010 10011 1010010 01001 111000101010 1101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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