This is an analysis of the poem Slow To Self Detect that begins with:
They are doing their best to see him defeated.
He does not represent, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb XacccXcbbbbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011011010 111101 11000010111 111100100101 10010010 111 10101101 01101 1111010100001 10111101 1010110011 111101010101 010010 001011010001 0101000101010011 1110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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