This is an analysis of the poem Bogus Are Your Deeds that begins with:

Bogus are your deeds.
Bogus are your activities, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAB acdeFGffcXh AABFGbdeAhc abaecX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,11,11,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 10110100 1110001 111010 0011010 1111010 11101101 00110100 1001001 111011111 000101100 0110011101 10100010010 11110 10111 10110100 1110001 00110100 1001001 11111001 001001101 1111111 10111 1011010011001 10101111001 1011101 1011010011101 1010101 101111011 10001011010 10100100110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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