This is an analysis of the poem Rich that begins with:
Who has a troop of romping youth
About his parlour floor,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacbdb beXedfXf ffXfcgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101 11010101 110101 100111001 110101 11010101 010101 11010111 011101 11011101 101101 11010101 011101 01000101 0100101 10111101 110001 00010101 110011 11011101 010101 01010111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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