This is an analysis of the poem Now Regarded As Threats that begins with:
It was wrong to do from the very beginning,
To dismiss the foolishness with excuses to ignore it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbabXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010010010 001010000100010 111001010101 00100001 11101001000 10100100101001 01101101011 0010100100 10010101010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 410
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.
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