This is an analysis of the poem The Kool-Aid, Although Tasty...Was Never Free that begins with:
Can you excuse a tendency I have,
To be direct, thoughtless and somewhat abusive? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbXcdbaXcdXaXXXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010011 000110111010 111010111000001 1101001 110010100 111010110111 01111001011110 11100110110 11001 1111011 110 1110111011101 11011010010 10101011011010 1 001101100110 111010 1110001010100 1110101101110 110101011 101 10111110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 811
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, to are repeated.
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