This is an analysis of the poem Velocity Of Money that begins with:

I’m delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows
of Lower East Side...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddeXXffbcgXbbahcgggbhaed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010010001010101010 01011 0101110100110010101 11 01010101111101 10111010011110110100 110 11111110110100 11001001111001 10101 10101101010010010001 11110100111 11001011011010 100111001100 11011110101 110000100111010 111111011111 101010110111111 11110011101 1011110101010111010 0100011101001110 1010101001010 10101111101101001 111110001111010101 011001000110110 101001001000100 1111101101110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1429
  • Average number of words per stanza: 256
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines street is repeated).

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