This is an analysis of the poem One-Up-Manships that begins with:
I don't participate,
In one-up-manships....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaab cXdad cXXcX bbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 01110 1011001100 11001111 010100101 1010101 101101010 10010110 11010101 101101011010 01111101 0111010 001001001 1101111010 010110010010 01011100 1001 00110101 00101000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of One-Up-Manships;
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- idea of the verse;
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