This is an analysis of the poem What Counts that begins with:
It isn't the money you're making,
it isn't the clothes you wear, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXa bbb ccc aaa deede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 000010110 0000111 10000101011111101 0011111 010111010111 110111111101111 1111110101011011 110111111110101 01111110111111 0111111000100101 1011111100101111 01001011110101 1101010111101 0011010101100111 10010010 101111 0110101100111111 101110010 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, that, you, it's, how are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, it's are repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What Counts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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