This is an analysis of the poem The Obviousness Of Delusion that begins with:
Keeping up with appearances,
And striving to sustain a maintaining of an image......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100100 11000100100110 0100001001110100 01001011 1111101011 10001110010 11100010010001 001000010 10101101010 001110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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