This is an analysis of the poem The Rewards Of Industry that begins with:
A FRIEND of mine said yesterday: 'There goes a man across the way
Who paid ten thousand dollars for a home a week ago; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcded facaeggX fhhhgXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111010101 11110101010101 1111001101011101 1101110101 1001010111110111 0111010001 0110011111011101 1101010001 1101010111010001 1001110101 1101010111001101 1111110001 1100110111010101 1111110101 1111011111110101 1111111010 1111010111110101 0111010101 1101010111010111 0111010101 1111000111010101 0111011100 0110100111010101 1101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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