This is an analysis of the poem Complete Destitution that begins with:
What motivates someone,
To select another to victimize? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 0010100100 1001111101 1101110011 010011010 1001101 010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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