This is an analysis of the poem Intellectual Limitations that begins with:
Parunts knows lots more than us,
But they don't know _all_ things,--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bXXX cdad bXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 111111 0110111 1011011 1110101 101010 1010101 001010 1111101 111011 1110101 101011 1110111 1110010 1111111 1110111 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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