This is an analysis of the poem One Has Standards To Maintain that begins with:
Are you a joke?
Or is this an inappropriate time, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccdeXfa aXXfbdXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1001101001 111001 111001001 001101 1110010 11010 100101000100 1111111010 1 101010110101011 10100100011010101 11 0101010 01010110001100 1110001 010 10100001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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