This is an analysis of the poem For Purposes To Sustain Exaggerations that begins with:
When one speaks from experience,
And not from visions that are embellished......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXXc AbccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100100 1101011010 0010001110010 0100111010 01000101110010 11100100 00101010001 010101010 11010110100101 1100001101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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