This is an analysis of the poem Flowing Into The Gutters that begins with:
What I say to you offends.
But what should offend, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcXad dbaXcdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1110101 11101 011001 10011010 1011001 1000010 0010010 1010000 11001 111010111 11111010 1110101010 111001100 111100101 10000110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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