This is an analysis of the poem What Incentive Would They Have... that begins with:

Those upper crust need not be butter uppers.
You or anyone else will not find them, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaccXcab dXXXddXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101010 1110010110 100010001010 10110100011010 11010011011010 00110100011110 111101 011111101011 10 1010111 01010100111 110110101101 10010011010 010101001001 01001001 1100101 10011001010 1010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, it are repeated.

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