This is an analysis of the poem Wasted Investment that begins with:
A wasted investment,
Should not take days, months or decades......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccXbaX aXXcabXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010 11111101 001110100 1111101111 10101101101011 11010111111010 0100101 10011101 11100 01010010 1110010 01111001010 1010100010 101 111001 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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