This is an analysis of the poem Maintaining A Maintenance Of One's Sanity that begins with:
Maintaining a maintenance of one's sanity,
Requires constant discipline....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD eee FEF gXc gcg FEFXABCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010001100 01010100 101000111 111011010101 1111110 010011 111101101 110101001 100101 011011101 01001010110010 1010100 0010010100100 110101110111 00101010011 101011010 110101001 100101 011011101 010010001100 01010100 101000111 111011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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