This is an analysis of the poem Girl In A Cage that begins with:

HERE in a cage the dollars come down.
To the click of a tube the dollars tumble....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXa bcX abbacXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101011 00100101010 110010101 110010 10110 1001 1101 010010 11 01011 0011010 0101001 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dollars is repeated.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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