This is an analysis of the poem Scorn that begins with:

You business men with your large desks with your stenographers and your bell-boys and your private telephones I say to you these are the four walls... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011101100011111110101110111011011 1111010011111101011110101011110111111011010 1011111101011111101000101111101011110101110110110110101101011111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
  • Average number of words per stanza: 124
  • Amount of lines: 3
  • Average number of symbols per line: 208 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 41
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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