This is an analysis of the poem It Is Not An Act that begins with:
Perhaps I should not be so quick,
To express my lack of disappointment....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabccba XdacdXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01111011 0011101010 1110110101 01001010 01111101101 1010001 1111 100111011110 1011000 00111 1110111 11110 00011110 10
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to are repeated.
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