This is an analysis of the poem The Price Of Riches that begins with:
Nobody stops at the rich man's door to pass the time of day.
Nobody shouts a 'hello!' to him in the good old-fashioned way....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbXddeeaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111010101 1111010010001101 1111001111101101 1110101011110111 1111100011011101 11111110110100101 1101101010110101 110111101101001110 001011011111011001 1100101111111101 111011110011110101 1110010100110100101 110110010110111111 1101001111100101 111110010110110111 110111110100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1116
- Average number of words per stanza: 229
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, nobody, he, of, in, for, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nobody, and are repeated.
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