This is an analysis of the poem Learning To Function On The Assumption that begins with:
Learning to function on the assumption,
That all of life operates as one initiates and dictates......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbX Xb ccXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010010 1101101110100101 0101011 11011101 01101010 110111101101 101001100010 1110101001011 1001011100 11010101010001 101001010000111 011001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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