This is an analysis of the poem Searching To Pass An Exaggeration that begins with:
Rarely are those of deed doing,
Heard or seen flashing a résumé around......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbb cbdeXe adbfXfed bbeXecaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110 111100101 00110110010 111001 10101000100 11011010101010 1010101010010 1111101001 101 10010110 001010010110001 01000101 1010110100 11110101 1110110111 1101001 110101 1101101010101 10100101001 1101110 1110010001011 11010001 01010111010 11010101101 11000111010 1010100101010 01010110000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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