This is an analysis of the poem An Invective Against Gold that begins with:
OF all the Poisons that the fruitful Earth
E'er yet brought forth, or Monsters she gave Birth, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeeXXff dddd ggccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 10111110111 10111101100 1110011111 1010100101 1001010101 0101110101 0111101011 0101010101 1001111101 1011011001 1101101110 1101001111 11111110111 01110100101 0111011101 1101111101 1110110101 0101111101 1101011101 0101110101 1001011011 1101010111 1111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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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