This is an analysis of the poem The Beggars that begins with:

It is the beggars who possess the earth.
Kings on their throne have but a narrow girth... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeffccccffXbggggcchhddggccddddfXddggaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0001010101 1111110101 0111010101 1001111100 0001000101 1001010100 1101110101 0100111101 1111010101 1111010101 1100010101 1110111100 1111010101 0110111101 1101110100 1001010100 0101010111 01010000111 1111011101 1101011111 0100101110 1001110101 1111011111 1001010101 1111010111 1111011001 0111110101 1101110111 1111110101 1101101111 1011010111 1101010111 0101010111 1110110101 1011010101 0101010001 1111010111 0011010011 0101110101 11011110101 1001010011 01011100101 1101010001 0111111111 0101011101 1101010000 1011001101 1111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1999
  • Average number of words per stanza: 368
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, and, they, their, he are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Beggars;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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