This is an analysis of the poem Pray Reality You Pay For Never Fades that begins with:

Wear your toupee with a wish youth stays.
Handle all your business from May 'til December....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAC DEDX DEDXXABAC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100111 101110011010 10100111101 11101110111 111111110 11111 1101110100 110011 111111110 11111 1101110100 110011 111100111 101110011010 10100111101 11101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Pray Reality You Pay For Never Fades;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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