This is an analysis of the poem Favorites Of Whomever May Best Flatter that begins with:

Limited in vision.
And rehashed personality clashes, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcXdadababcd ecX X ecebcfXX Xdf XgXfXgXXXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,3,1,8,3,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100010 11001010010 010101010 101001 1101001 010010100 11010001 0111010 1110101 100011001 0101010 101000101 100001011 101101110 11101111 111101 11011110 111001001 11 111101011 1110011 1010001 1011011100101 10001110100 1010 101010010 1 1 111110100 101 11101001101 10011101 00101 110 0101110100 11111100 110001 1111 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.

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  • summary of Favorites Of Whomever May Best Flatter;
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  • history of its creation;
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