This is an analysis of the poem Your Riches—taught Me—poverty that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXb Xcac XdXX XcXc ecfc Xfef cgfg dhch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011100 110101 01011111 111101 1101100 010001 11011100 110101 01110111 110101 01000100 11010 11101101 010111 101001001 010101 01110011 011111 01010101 111001 0100010 0111001 01011111 110101 11010001 110101 10110101 010001 01110001 110001 11110101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word its is repeated.
The author used the same word i'm at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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