This is an analysis of the poem Comparing Themselves To Others that begins with:
People will do everything within their power,
To prevent their own ignorance from being displayed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 100110101110 0011110001001 0100001001 11101001010 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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