This is an analysis of the poem On A Handful Of French Money that begins with:
These coins that jostle on my hand do own
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaaaacdXXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011111 1101011111 0100110011 1101010101 0101010111 0101001101 1111111111 1101011101 10111111110 1101011100 1101010100 11100010100 1101110001 1101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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