This is an analysis of the poem Marketing Shock To Produce A Dollar that begins with:

Second guessing is infectious.
As fact finders seem to be less curious....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbbcdcXXdXbdacX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100010 11101001100 1110101011 110110001 011110010 000111011101 11001101001 110010100101 01001011010 1011101 1110101001010100 101 1100101110 11011010010101 10110100110 010101101 0011001001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 700
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase standards connects the lines.

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