This is an analysis of the poem Why I Am Poor that begins with:
Because, my friends I have a savage glee
In drinking to the dregs the draughts of life...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbXadXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111110101 0100010101 1101110101 10011100111 11010101010 0111010101 11010011010 0111110001 0110110110 1111111101 1101110111 1011010100 0101111101 1100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, for are repeated.
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