This is an analysis of the poem They'Re Plucking Feathers From Each Other's Struts that begins with:
The only thing one can expect to come from quacks
Is something tossed from a mouth one should duck...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010111010101 0101001111 111 100010101 1101001101 110011010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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