This is an analysis of the poem When Has Honesty Proven To Be A Positive Thing that begins with:
Corrupted intentions seldom succeed.
Even those who believe, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXa aXaXbX X b XbXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,1,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101001 101101 1101100 11010100101 110101101101 1001010010101 10100101 011101110 1110010110110 0101010101010 0111110010 001001010011 1011100010001000 1100011010 11100100001001 11100100100 110101101 1001001 01 1011011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 is repeated.
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