This is an analysis of the poem People Who Are Set In Their Ways that begins with:
It is too late,
To re-program a people taught...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaXb cBXbcb cBbXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011 01110101 11010 01010110001 1 10010101 10111011 100101 101 11101 00111 1111111 101011 100101 0100101 1011 01000010110 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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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