This is an analysis of the poem Government that begins with:
The Government -- I heard about the Government and
I went out to find it. I said I would look closely at ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcdXXXefXgcfeddXabaXaefeXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110101001 11101011111101 01110 11100101001010 0100010100010 1101100100110110 110011000101 0101010110110 1110101000111 010100101 110100101101010 10010100110100 010100111101 1100010 10111110000110 11100111100 1011000010110 1011010101010 1001100 10011011101111 010111011001 110010101101 010111010101 1011101011010 111000110 010001110101001100 11010101000101 01011001010 10110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1352
- Average number of words per stanza: 241
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, government, and, money are repeated.
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