This is an analysis of the poem True Leadership Offends that begins with:
A true leadership offends.
Especially those who have grown, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDBEA babfXf ABCDBEA XghhgdaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0110101 01001111 001 11010100 0101110 11011101 00101101 101110010 101110 11011010 10011010101 00010101 001001 0110101 01001111 001 11010100 0101110 11011101 00101101 010011010 1101111 10110010100 110001010010100 10010111 010010100 110010101001 0100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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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