This is an analysis of the poem Riches that begins with:
If I can leave behind me here and there
A friend or two to say when I am gone ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cacca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011111 0111011111 1111011111 1101110101 0100011101 0101111101 1111010101 1111000101 1100111101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Riches;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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