This is an analysis of the poem The Bank Clerk that begins with:
I'D LIKE to be a bank clerk, and sit inside a cage,
I'd like to take and hoard away the toiler's weekly wage;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddcccc eeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100011110101 11011101010101 111010101011111 111010101011111 01010111111101 11111111010111 11000110010111 01011111110111 01010101110111 01010111011110 1110001111010101 11010101010111 11010101010100 11010101110101 111010111010111 11110101110101 11010101110101 111100110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, like, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'd, i, to are repeated.
The author used the same word i'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word get at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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