This is an analysis of the poem Effect Shrewd Preferences that begins with:
the screed seen here blesses
the sweet, the meek, the gentle,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXbXeefggXecdhddcdeafhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110 0101010 00111100 10111 01001101 011111001 110101 1111010 11111 010111 101101 1010011 011011 011101 1010111 101011 01011010 11101 101101 10101010 1010101 110111 111011 10111001 10101011 10101100 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1043
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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