This is an analysis of the poem Ludicrous Tricks! that begins with:
What democracy would breed
Devastation upon its own people? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdced cffbfe aeXf XfXaf feXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 1010010110 101010100 01101 111101 01001 1101001 101010010 01101100 001100 10101010 00110 0101101 1100010 101010100 1010001 01000010 11011101 100100011000 0100110101 1101 1011111001 010010 101010100 0010101110 111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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