This is an analysis of the poem They Have Struck The Motherlode that begins with:
Few can placate by folly.
With an appeasing done, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcXa XbXXbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110110 010101 011101 10101101 110 111010 10110100 10110 0010010010 1101 1110100 001010 001001111 11010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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