This is an analysis of the poem Adjusting Under Spotlight that begins with:
With all the ammunition at one's disposal,
To attack....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXa aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101011010 001 1111110100 01000010110 011001010101 10100011010100 1101110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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