This is an analysis of the poem Make No Attempt To Compliment that begins with:
When the initiative is taken,
To inflict upon another heartbreak....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbXabcddXcXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100010 0010101011 010101000 11111010101 10 00101 11011010 0101 11101 10010 10010110 001000010 01010111010 00110110 01 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 444
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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