This is an analysis of the poem The Rich Man's Woes that begins with:
HE 'S worth a million dollars and you think he should be glad,
Because you want for money you believe he can't be sad;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcC ddeecC ddXbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010101111101 01111101011101 010001010100111 011010101110111 111010101110101 101010111011111 111110101110101 101010101111101 111000101111101 111010101010101 111000101110101 101010111011111 101001101010101 111011101010111 101010111010101 101011101111 10011011110101010001 101010111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; he, you, he's, and, his, for, to, it's are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word down at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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