This is an analysis of the poem Treated As If Royal Guests that begins with:
It doesn't pay to underestimate,
The abilities of anyone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdecffafg fhabbX dgfefacXaX Xcffbc ahcceXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,6,10,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010100 001000100 1110100101000 11111 1010101 11111 10001001101 010010100 101101010100 0010101 1001110010 1111001010 1000010 110101 0101101 010001 10111011110 11100101101 111000110 101001 0101010001 0111011101 1 110010100 1011000100 0011001001 110100100 101011 01101010 11010101 1101001 110111010 0111101 1 110 0101101010 101010 0111110001 1101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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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