This is an analysis of the poem Expenses that begins with:
I'm sick to death of money, of the lack of it, that is,
And of practising perpetually small economies;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc XXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010100010010 101000100010100 01010101010101 001010100010101 01001101111101 11111101110111 101010101010001 11010100110001 1101111110101 11111101110101 11010101011101 11010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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