This is an analysis of the poem Scurrying To Hide Their Self Servicing that begins with:

Transit operations add onto the bailout wave.
An economic glitch has transfixed the land....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabbbac XdXXcad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1010101100111 11010110101 01110111011 01010010 101111010 110101011 0110110100 101010100100 110101010 101010111100 0101000111 100100101010111 1110001 1110001101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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 Scurrying To Hide Their Self Servicing;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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