This is an analysis of the poem Incompetent He Is Not that begins with:

Why can they NOT leave President Obama alone?
Is it because he is Black, attractive, factual and brilliant? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcbdX bXXXadbb bdXdcdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110111001 0001101010100110 10101000111 11110001011010 010100101 10010010001101 10101101100 10100101 1011100111 0101011001001001 1010010 010010101 11101 1010110101 11000101010001 11110101 100100011001 10100100111110 10 0101101 110100001101111 10100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, to, their are repeated.

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