This is an analysis of the poem What Do Poets Want With Gold? that begins with:
What do poets want with gold,
Cringing slaves and cushioned ease;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab aaccddeeddaaccbbffaaggg haha eXiijjaakkcciii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,23,4,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1011101 1111101 1011111 10101001 0011101 1010101 001101 10001010 10111010 1010101 1011111 11101110 00101010 1010101 1010101 1110111 1010111 10010110 1010100 1010101 1111110 1010101 0010101 0011101 0010101 0010101 1110101 10110101 1010111 1010101 1010101 11111000 1010111 10010101 1011101 1011101 00110111 1110101 1011101 1010101 1000111 1010101 1010101 1010011 11110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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.
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