This is an analysis of the poem Deceit Can Not Keep Them Hidden that begins with:

Losing is not born from honesty.
Those who are honest......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccddeeXfedaecbeffXedbdcXebebbXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110100 11110 101111111 11110101 101110 11101110 011110 111 11010 01010 001110111 110100 111011100100 1011010001 01111010 10101 1001110011 0110 111100 11010 110001 11110011 11011000010 110101010 110000111101 11111 101001 1110101 110010 1010010001 1000101 110111 1110111101 10010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1048
  • Average number of words per stanza: 178
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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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  • summary of Deceit Can Not Keep Them Hidden;
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  • history of its creation;
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