This is an analysis of the poem Notes To My Nieces (Or, Essays In Fortune-Telling ) that begins with:
when i was younger, trees
were green, money was green, money...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbde afdagfdd gXhX ghcd bdXdXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 01101110 1111111 10110110010 101110100 0010 11101111 1011101101 111010011 1101111 0110011 10100100111 1011110111001 01001 101 10011110010 10110101 0010 11 11111111 11011111 11 1010010 10101000010101 0111111 10011001 010111111 01111101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; money, trees are repeated.
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