This is an analysis of the poem A Significance That Benefits that begins with:
Competing to get attention,
Is such a petty position with intention to take....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXb baabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001010 01010010001001 01010101010 010001001001100010 101110111010 110011111010 001111011010 10111010011 101001010010001 0011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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- history of its creation;
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