This is an analysis of the poem No Good Deed Goes Unpunished that begins with:
There was a man in our town who had King Midas' touch;
He gave away his millions to the colleges and such;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbXX ccXX ddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111101 11010100010011 11011101110101 011101110100010 11010101110101 01011101100101 11011101010111 110101000111100 1101011111111 01000100111101 110110001011101 011101011110000 1101011110011 01010100110101 1110101010111011 1110101111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (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, that, and are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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- summary of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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