This is an analysis of the poem In A More Receptive Mood that begins with:
If it's going to be about race,
Today....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbXcAb AbaXX bdd AbXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001000011 01 11101 11010101 111010101 001000011 01 1000011 01 1101110011 111001010100 10101 11111101 1111010 010101001 1000011 01 11101110 001010101 11010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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