This is an analysis of the poem Give Them What They Want that begins with:
Give them what they want.
And their limitations expect....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaXbaAb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 11101001 0110111 1111011011 101001101 10111 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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