This is an analysis of the poem What Do Liars Then Do? that begins with:
Liars know who they are.
And what they have done, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccd ecedc edXbXXdcbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101111 11111 00110101010 00010100111 101110111 1110101 1010011 010100011 101001 100101010101 11110101 11101010110101 11001100 011101 00010100101001 111011 100010101010 1100010 101011111 110110010110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
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