This is an analysis of the poem The Right Thing that begins with:
Let others probe the mystery if they can.
Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abA aba abA abA abaXabaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100011 1101000110 0111000101 0111011101 0101010101 11011100011 1101101111 0101010101 0111000101 1001111101 0101011101 0111000101 1111010101 0101010101 1001110011 1101101111 1111010000 11000111111 0111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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