This is an analysis of the poem Poor Dining Habits that begins with:
When people have shown themselves,
To have a history of treacherous behavior......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 1101101 0101000100010 1110011 11110111010 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; have is repeated.
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