This is an analysis of the poem Entertained And Distanced that begins with:
The expense of keeping minds entertained and distanced,
To sustain a maintaining of those frivolities kept......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabababbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0010101101110 00100100110001 101101011001001 11101101 0101010 01001011001001 101101000010110 010001110001010 01000011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
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